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The mud cracks were found at Old Soaker near Mount Sharp on Mars.

2016 was the third consecutive year of record-breaking temperatures.

The shallow ridges being investigated on the red planet could have originally been cracks formed in mud as it dried over 3 billion years ago.

The NASA astronaut, who was part of the Apollo lunar missions, was the last man to have walked on the surface of the moon, in May 1972.

The two discoveries, from galaxies relatively close to the Milky Way, were made using a NASA instrument that can detect X-rays.

A composite of two separate images, taken Nov. 20 by a high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, was released Friday.

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the activity was observed in the third star system outside our own where astronomers have detected comets.

The film is based on a nonfiction book with the same title.

Until now, such observations were only possible from space-based missions such as Cassini, Voyager, and most recently, Juno.

The NED-D catalog is part of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database — a repository containing information on more than 100 million galaxies.

The White House has released its seven-point strategy to prepare for an asteroid impact.

Until now, penitentes — formed due to sublimation of ice and erosion — had only been seen on Earth.

NASA reveals dual robotic missions, named Lucy and Psyche, which will study asteroids in our solar system.

The space agency announced Tuesday that it was close to determining the cause of an anomalous reading encountered during vibration tests carried out last month.

The contracts, announced under NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability program, bring the total number of missions awarded to SpaceX and Boeing to six each.

The space administration is set to launch a couple new programs and could rely increasingly on private partnerships.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the comet will be visible just to the left of the moon on Saturday night.

The source of intense bursts of microwaves is a galaxy named IRAS 16399-0937, located roughly 370 million light-years from Earth.

On Thursday, a team of experts at NASA's Langley Research Center finalized the design for an “Ice Home” — one of the many concepts for sustainable human habitats on Mars.

Images captured using two separate instruments on board NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed a baffling discrepancy — one that relates to the cloud cover on Saturn's largest moon.

Scientists believe understanding the factors affecting the growth and decline of phytoplankton populations is key to comprehending changes in the global carbon cycle.