WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — To survive on other planets, water is, of course, critical. We need it to drink, sustain crops and even create rocket fuel. But on spaceflights, checked luggage is exorbitantly ...

One of the challenges of sending human explorers to Mars is that, due to the logistics of the journey, they will have to be on the planet’s surface for considerably longer than the missions of a few ...

Astronomers hunting for water on alien planets have a new tool in their arsenal. This comes in the form of a water-hunting technique that uses an exoplanet's size to estimate how much of this vital ...

NASA scientists have potentially found accessible ice on Mars, a promising development for possible future human expeditions to the Red Planet. The NASA-funded Subsurface Water Ice Mapping project ...

Narrowing down the location of buried ice on Mars could help the space agency decided where to land its astronauts on future missions. Reading time 3 minutes A new map of subsurface water on Mars just ...

The Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector (GRaND) aboard NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is mapping the elemental composition of Ceres in a low altitude orbit, about 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the surface of ...

Recent research has unearthed compelling evidence of liquid water beneath the crust of Mars. This groundbreaking discovery opens up thrilling new possibilities for the potential existence of life on ...

Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of ...