Since NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars in 2006, the spacecraft has delivered some of the most detailed imagery ever captured of the Red Planet.

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on record.

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life-forms flung into space by violent impacts may have colonized planets and ...

Dr. Heike Rauer of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Freie Universität Berlin is awarded the 2026 Caroline Herschel Medal. The medal and prize recognise her outstanding contributions to exoplanet ...