While the name dust devils may seem rather harmless, new photos from NASA's Opportunity rover show that the massive dusty spin-ups that stake a claim to Mars’ barren surface can grow to be the size of tornadoes, much larger than the average dust devils that form in different parts of the Earth. Earthly dust devils tend to top off at about 30 feet in width and have an average height of about 650 feet. The ones measured on Mars, however,...

Humans may not be alone in the universe after all - at least that is what some experts are saying following the discovery of more planets in the Milky Way galaxy that could possibly support advanced lifeforms. A study published in Astrobiology last week suggests an increased probability exists that planets in the habitable zone could develop and support a technologically-advanced species. The study comes in the wake of an announcement that NASA's Kepler mission verified 1,284 new planets, which...

Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari is on the surface of Pluto...or at least the video he's watching is. ...

Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari looks at an illustration of what a dust storm on Mars would look like...pretty terrifying. ...

In just a few months, a planet-wide dust storm is expected to completely cover Mars, blocking light from the sun and hiding the Red Planet’s features. This type of global dust storm has been difficult to predict, but researchers have reason to believe that they may be linked to Mars’ motion around the gravitational center of the solar system, reports Smithsonian.com. NASA atmospheric scientist James Shirley says Mars can gain or lose both rotational and orbital energy as it moves...

Meteorologist Danielle Banks talks about a new attraction this summer at Kennedy Space Camp where you can take a virtual trip on the surface of Mars. ...

The building blocks for life on Earth were likely made possible by superflares from a young sun, a new NASA study has found. The findings, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, . In studying the data, scientists learned that younger stars, similar to the sun billions of years ago, shoot out flares and coronal mass ejections far more often than older stars. The flares that came from our sun were responsible for breaking molecular nitrogen into individual nitrogen atoms,...

NASA launched satellite that looks like disco ball into space 40 years ago. ...

NASA uses satellites to study precipitation from space. ...

Crew members aboard the International Space Station will now have added space to their home in Earth’s orbit. NASA on Saturday announced it had the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which will be analyzed over the course of a two-year test period. The module is part of an experimental line of “expandables,”which are lightweight and require minimal payload volume on a rocket, but expand to potentially provide new and comfortable space for astronauts to live and work. (MORE: ) NASA...

When the full moon shines in the night sky, it's easy to see the varied landscapes and vast craters on its surface. But not every crater on the moon is visible to the naked eye; there are some parts we never see at all. Now, a team of researchers has used UV light to see the "dark" side of the moon, and they found something rather surprising. The moon has two craters that are much newer that astronomers expected, the...

A massive coronal hole on the sun visible through NASA's extreme ultraviolet camera. ...