NASA’s InSight lander arrived on Mars to drill five meters underground and listen to the planet’s internal activity. Instead, its self-hammering probe stalled just inches below the surface — defeated ...

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered ...

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

The 100,000th image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been flying ...

Impulse Space’s lunar transportation system concept uses the company’s Helios tug (left) with a new lunar lander the company will develop. Credit: Impulse Space WASHINGTON — In-space transportation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2018, NASA landed the first seismograph on the red planet. The InSight lander (short for Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the latest news. First, let’s talk about ...

Teams working with the seismometers on NASA's InSight Mars lander first identified the Martian core and determined that it was actually still liquid. Now, the new results from Huixing Bi, at the ...

The Chinese-led research team based its findings on seismic readings from NASA's InSight lander on Mars, which recorded more than 1,300 marsquakes before shutting down in 2022. The spacecraft landed ...