PASADENA, Calif. - Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA’s Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.

Blacksmiths make horseshoes by heating, beating and bending iron, but what’s happening to the metal’s individual atoms during such a process?

Hurricane Earl’s eye, as measured by NASA’s HAMSR intrument on Sept. 2, 2010. The data reflect the brightness temperatures of the storm with cooler temperatures in shades of blue and

PASADENA, Calif.—Using a diamond-anvil cell to recreate the high pressures deep within the earth, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found unusual properti

MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-125 HOUSTON - To see what life might be like on a distant planet, reporters need only travel to the Arizona desert.

PASADENA, Calif.—Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new technique—using a sheet of carbon just one atom thick—to visualize the structure of molecules.

Research links chemical in widely consumed foods to skin cancer - MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (09/02/2010) —The September cover story of the nation’s leading cancer journal, &ldqu

MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-121 WASHINGTON - NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for the November space shuttle flight to the International Space Station.