It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...

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A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

The announcement arrived without technical diagrams or timelines laid out in detail. Instead, it came through a renewed ...

NASA and the Department of Energy aim to deploy a lunar surface nuclear reactor by 2030 to support sustained Moon missions and future exploration under the Artemis program.

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The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Mars, now a dusty world of rusted rock and thin air, once carried enough water to transform its face into something far more ...

American philosopher Quine wrote, “As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ...

The reactors will be used to support NASA's moon research and future missions to Mars, according to the announcement Tuesday.