The Phoenix lander appears to have fallen down a rabbit hole on Mars. How else to explain why it is exploring, from its stationary spot in the frigid northern plains, nearby sites called Wonderland, Cheshire Cat and Croquet Ground?”The overarching…
For more than 30 years, researchers have been cooking up mock Martian soil but no single material can simulate all its properties
US lawmakers hope to force the space agency to schedule an extra flight so that an expensive particle detector can be hauled into space
The planet was already known to sport one type of aurora around its poles, but new observations suggest it also sports a second
Linking radio telescopes in North and South America, Europe and Africa produces the equivalent of an antenna spanning 11,000 kilometres
A whitish patch on the border of a polygon-shaped section of soil may be ice Phoenix will watch to see if it vaporises in the sunlight
Exoplanet discoveries are streaming in thanks to technological advances a third of Sun-like stars may host planets a few times heftier than Earth
Protogalaxies that formed soon after the big bang may have had plenty of stars after all, thanks to blast waves from supernovae
The ubiquitous microwaves of the Global Positioning System can be used to locate water in arid areas and they are free (full text available to subscribers)
The shuttle Discovery landed at its home port on Saturday, wrapping up a mission that gave Japan a permanent toehold in space
