What Kilauea’s eruption can reveal about volcanoes on other worlds—and possibly, alien life
The Kilauea volcano provides a natural laboratory on Earth to study volcanoes found on other planets and moons in our solar system.
WATCH LIVE: NASA launches InSight, the first lander for peering deep into Mars
InSight could become the first probe to dig deep into Mars' interior to explore how the Red Planet’s geology evolved over billions of years, including the planet’s so-called “marsquakes.”…
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Can humans cope with long space travel? Astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year as a guinea pig
A year in space isn’t for the faint of heart. Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, author of a new book, “Endurance,” sits down with science correspondent Miles O’Brien to discuss the physical effects of a long space mission and what…
SpaceX aims for history with latest rocket launch
With 40 mice, 400 fruit flies and 3 tons of supplies in a refurbished cargo capsule, a SpaceX rocket embarked on another historic mission to the International Space Station from Florida on Saturday.
What did 2016 mean for science? Science correspondent Miles O’Brien sits down with William Brangham to discuss some of the more remarkable discoveries, innovations and setbacks this year, including the confirmation of one of Einstein's major predictions, the global outbreak…
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European scientists are getting new snapshots of the Red Planet thanks to the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
The myriad strains of a future deep space journey percolate through ‘MARS’ — a new six-part miniseries on the National Geographic Channel.
Radiation exposure on a deep space journey to Mars could cause long-term brain damage, based on research from the University of California-Irvine School of Medicine.
