Physicists at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a compact laser that ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

That carbon dioxide and water should have reacted with Martian rocks to create carbonate minerals. But rover missions and near-infrared spectroscopy analysis from Mars-orbiting satellites have not yet ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of specialized instruments, allows it to detect very faint emissions coming from ...

Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity rover have discovered siderite—an iron carbonate—in the sulfate-rich rocks of Gale Crater, ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sees its tracks receding into the distance at a site nicknamed "Ubajara" on April 30, 2023. This ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided compelling evidence that the exoplanet K2-18b may contain atmospheric molecules.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera ... "Since the Earth's atmosphere has a lot of carbon dioxide, [it] blocks a large amount of light at this wavelength." ...

Their latest study, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, reports the detection of either dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or ...

Astronomers detected potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, but findings remain inconclusive. Claims of alien life ...