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NASA's next mission to Mars, scheduled to launch one year from today to examine the Red Planet's deep interior and investigate how rocky planets like Earth evolved, now has one specific site under evaluation as the best place to land and deploy its science instruments.

Astronomers have discovered the second known case of a planet residing in a quadruple star system.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is expected to remain stationary for several days of engineering analysis following an onboard fault-protection action on Feb 27.

Violent collisions between the growing Earth and other objects in the solar system generated significant amounts of iron vapor, according to a new study.

A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been modeled by a team of researchers.

The latest images from Dawn, taken nearly 29,000 miles from Ceres, reveal that a bright spot that stands out in previous images lies close to yet another bright area.

Fotossíntese – a coleta de luz solar para produzir energia – é o condutor definitivo de virtualmente toda a vida do nosso planeta.

NASA’S MAVEN spacecraft has completed the first of five deep-dip maneuvers designed to gather measurements closer to the lower end of the Martian upper atmosphere.

A complex network of isolated hills, ridges and small basins spanning 1400 km on Mars is thought to hide large quantities of water-ice.

Exactly 85 years after Clyde Tombaugh’s historic discovery of Pluto, New Horizon is providing its first views of the small moons orbiting Pluto.

Plumes seen reaching high above the surface of Mars are causing a stir among scientists studying the atmosphere on the Red Planet.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft showed its love for the solar system, including Earth, with these images on Feb. 14, 1990.

Pesquisadores encontraram evidências de um potencial ‘oceano significativo’ de água nos subterrâneos dos Estados Unidos da América.

For the first time, astronomers have caught a multiple-star system in the beginning stages of its formation. Of the eventual four stars, three may become a stable triple-star system.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is nearing a location on Mars at which its driving distance will surpass the length of a marathon race.