Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...

Ridley Scott's underrated sci-fi masterpiece, The Martian, is once again in the public eye thanks to a surprising reaction ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Invaders From Mars, a surreal 1953 science fiction cult classic that inspired Steven Spielberg, is a hit on free streaming.

A vast, magnetically tangled sunspot has rotated into direct view of Earth, raising the prospect of powerful solar eruptions ...

Mankind has long wondered whether there is life elsewhere in the universe and former astronaut Mark Kelly explains NASA’s ...

Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have created an extraordinary set of images showing debris disks in a wide ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars ...

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is one of only three NASA missions currently in operation around Mars, and one ...