An accident on Mars revealed the surprising contents of an otherwise unremarkable rock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A rock on ...

Scientists studying Mars may have uncovered a brand-new mineral hidden in the planet’s ancient sulfate deposits. By combining laboratory experiments with orbital data, researchers identified an ...

Lightning long ago escaped the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere—scientists have already discovered lightning blazing through the skies of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Now they think they’ve found it on ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often produced by life.

Scientist analyzed molecules found on an ancient rock on the Red Planet A new study may bring scientists one step closer to answering the question of whether life ever existed on Mars Researchers ...