Since humanity's first steps on the moon, the aspiration to extend human civilization beyond Earth has been a central ...

The end of November delivered the coldest weather in months to the north-central United States, and in Minneapolis, it was ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

Scientists analyzed 28 hours of recordings over two Martian years, listening for electrical signals. Dust devils on Mars ...

A Hollywood writer turned ODU professor, Morgan Gendel is now working on an engineering project sponsored by the Air Force.

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NASA is sending two spacecraft to Mars on their new ESCAPADE mission to reveal how space weather robbed it of its atmosphere and turned it dry ...

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's ...

Temperatures in Minneapolis hit 27 degrees on Thanksgiving Day and dropped overnight. Meanwhile, our planetary neighbor saw ...

A late-November cold snap sent temperatures in Minneapolis so low that, for a short time, it was actually colder than Mars, ...

Dust on Mars has a new voice. What once looked like silent red storms now crackles with tiny sparks, as if the planet were ...

The most powerful solar storm recorded at Mars in the current solar cycle has just given scientists a stark preview of what a ...