Aug. 17 (UPI) --French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible. Since then, scientists have ...

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will attend the launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on ...

As NASA promised in March, we have far more information about the space at the heart of the agency's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), which aims to study how humans might ...

Rocky material that impacted Mars lies scattered in giant lumps throughout the planet’s mantle, offering clues about Mars’ interior and its ancient past. What appear to be fragments from the aftermath ...

The researchers' findings were based on seismic readings from NASA’s InSight lander on Mars. Scientists were able to identify 8 Martian quakes with strong enough seismic activity that allowed them to ...

For the first time, seismologists have imaged the interior of another planet. Using data from NASA's InSight spacecraft's seismometer, the agency's Mars rovers and orbiters around the red planet, the ...

At a Monday meeting of the American Geophysical Union, NASA’s Associate Administrator for Science Alan Stern announced the selection of a new mission that will peer deep inside the moon to reveal its ...

NASA on Thursday outlined three science investigations to gauge the feasibility to examine Mars' interior, study an ocean on one of Saturn's moons and detail a comet's nucleus. The awards are part of ...

NASA-funded researchers said Thursday they had mapped the interior of Mars, using seismic data collected by the agency’s Mars InSight lander to reveal a planet with a molten core whose size and ...

Jim Bell works for Arizona State University, the lead academic institution responsible for the Pyche mission. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Planetary Society. He receives ...