The years-long delay of the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission leaves astrobiologists —- indeed most of humanity —- longing for some sort of next level closure on whether Mars ever had ...

For the test, the rover hunted for organic molecules in rock samples from the Murchison meteorite.

Europe's Mars Express orbiter recently imaged a huge valley system on the Red Planet — and dust devils dot the alien ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has uncovered new evidence of a dark ash blanket slowly spreading across Mars, an occurrence that has unfolded in just a few decades. This discovery, captured through ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has been something of a mystery ever since it graced our solar system. From all outward appearances, the object appears to be a comet that originated in another star ...

On 29 and 30 June the ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, David Southwood, met NASA’s Associate Administrator for Science, Ed Weiler, in Plymouth, UK, to establish a way for a progressive ...

During a flyby of Mars on Wednesday (March 12), ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos. The European Space Agency (ESA) ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission has detected a soft green glow in the night sky of Mars that is visible to the human eye for the first time. As the orbiter ...