New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago ...

It is the time of year when snow is melting, and we are starting to see glimpses of spring weather. We are starting to hope the snowy season is now behind us and that the April showers that bring May ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: View of the InSight's seismometer on the Martian surface, in one of the last images taken by NASA's InSight Mars ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — To survive on other planets, water is, of course, critical. We need it to drink, sustain crops and even create rocket fuel. But on spaceflights, checked luggage is exorbitantly ...

Liquid water once shaped the Martian landscape dramatically, carving valleys, filling lakes, and forming vast oceans. Billions of years ago, during Mars' early days known as the Noachian and Hesperian ...

HOUSTON—Findings from NASA’s Mars InSight lander suggest that much of the water that covered the red planet’s now desert-like surface more than 3 billion years ago currently resides in liquid ...

Narrowing down the location of buried ice on Mars could help the space agency decided where to land its astronauts on future missions. Reading time 3 minutes A new map of subsurface water on Mars just ...

SINGAPORE — A study released Monday using data from NASA’s Mars InSight lander shows evidence of liquid water far below the surface of the fourth planet, advancing the search for life there and ...

The Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector (GRaND) aboard NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is mapping the elemental composition of Ceres in a low altitude orbit, about 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the surface of ...

One of the challenges of sending human explorers to Mars is that, due to the logistics of the journey, they will have to be on the planet’s surface for considerably longer than the missions of a few ...