Mars Isn’t Just Red – It’s Electrically Alive, Scientists Reveal

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Google’s Former C.E.O. Wants to Build a Cosmic Search Engine

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

Pandora, a keen-eyed satellite built to study exoplanets, readies for launch

Pandora, the latest in a long portfolio of University of Arizona's space science missions, has cleared its last major ...
Nature

NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...
Space on MSN

Strange cosmic objects spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope may be baby 'platypus' galaxies — or something entirely new

Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are presently puzzling astronomers. The odd ...