The rigor of operating outside the atmosphere has often led to rather outlandish NASA vehicle designs, but few have been more alien than this mobile lunar field laboratory from the heyday of the Space ...

Artist’s Illustration: Two suited crew members work on the lunar surface. One in the foreground lifts a rock to examine it while the other photographs the collection site in the background. Credits: ...

A successful drive across the Martian landscape has placed NASA’s Curiosity rover in what mission scientists describe as one of the safest and most stable positions of its entire journey. According to ...

A newly created geological map of Pluto's famous heart-shaped region shows just how varied and complex the distant dwarf planet is. Scientists on NASA's New Horizons mission, which performed the first ...

For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an unchanging, oven-hot state. Yet, recent data from NASA’s Magellan orbiter ...

When devastating wildfires swept through Southern California earlier this year, Los Angeles officials needed fast, accurate information: Where were the fires spreading? How severe was the burn damage?

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has obtained new detailed images of the south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The data reveal distinctive geological features and the most youthful terrain seen on ...

New images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show the moon’s crust is being stretched, forming minute valleys in a few small areas on the lunar surface. Scientists propose this ...

NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. Spherical objects concentrated at an outcrop Opportunity reached last week differ in ...

Perhaps it's counterintuitive that astronauts, the humans being sent hundreds of miles away from any rocks, should care about geology. Nevertheless, learn geology they do, through a special training ...