Two icons of discovery, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and NASA's Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME's "Best Inventions Hall of Fame ...

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas ...

NASA's Webb telescope and Curiosity rover recognized in TIME's 'Best Inventions Hall of Fame' for their global impact since ...

Curiosity has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2011, but what it found inside a rock last year has changed our ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ...

NASA lost contact with the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it passed behind the planet. The agency is investigating the cause while reviewing the mission’s role in Mars science and rover communications ...

A study led by NYU Abu Dhabi’s Space Exploration Laboratory found underground water that turned sand dunes into solid rock, ...

NASA is assessing a troubling loss of signal from a Mars orbiter that has spent the last 11 years gathering data on how the ...

In 1941, an Alton officer directs traffic at Broadway and Piasa ...

On Dec. 9, 1979, scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, a disease which killed an estimated 300 million ...

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