Tiny tornadoes of dust whirl across Mars's rusty plains far faster than scientists thought, a new study reveals. The results could help scientists plan future Mars missions by accounting for the ...

The substances could help supply a lunar base ...

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It’s an exciting time for space travel, since both NASA and SpaceX are aiming to have humans setting foot on Mars in the 2030s. This will be no mean feat, since the conditions on Mars are not to be ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the brutal heat of its host star. The planet, labeled BD+05 4868 Ab, is ...

Ancient Moon dust, meteorite traces and Apollo samples are helping NASA scientists rethink where Earth’s water truly came ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across the ...

A six-wheeled robot wandering the rugged terrain of Mars recently came across two small tornadoes whipping around the planet's surface. In a short video released Thursday by NASA, the two dust devils ...