An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...

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

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Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

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

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The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics ...

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Ancient ripples suggest a warmer, wetter past for the Red Planet that supported open water on its surface.

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