Scientists suspect iron meteorites might be able to resist erosion on Mars, which may explain why some appear perched on flat ground rather than embedded in craters. In other cases, a crater may have weathered away long ago, leaving only the rock behind.

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together.

NASA officials reacted strongly against allegations that federal employees were called back to work to dismantle laboratories and move equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its surface. So, what happened to the Red Planet, and could it happen to Earth?

The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

Blue Origin lanzó su enorme cohete New Glenn el jueves con un par de naves espaciales de la NASA destinadas a Marte.

ESA said in a statement that the Artemis 4 Orion service module would begin its journey across the Atlantic Ocean "in a few days" to head to NASA's Kennedy Space Center for further integration. In 2021, ESA paid a consortium of European companies 650 million euros ($791 million) to produce Orion service modules for Artemis missions 4, 5 and 6.

Maryland legislators came to the defense of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center amid rumors that buildings and laboratories were shuttered in the shutdown.

After 43 anxious days without pay or certainty, NASA employees are returning to work Thursday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston as the federal government reopens