After graduating from UVA in 2013 and completing her doctorate in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 2019, ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Earth,” dubbed HD 20794 d, boasts a mass six times that of our planet and resides within the star’s “habitable zone.” The ...

The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.

Thousands of mysterious clay mounds found on Mars were formed by ancient water on the Red Planet's barren northern plains, ...

The area containing the clay-bearing mounds is geologically connected to Oxia Planum, which is where Rosalind Franklin will ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

As humankind imagines living off-planet -- on the moon, Mars and beyond -- the question of how to sustain life revolves around the physical necessities of oxygen, food and water. We know there is ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.