Journalists gather around a rehearsal model of the sample return capsule on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at Dugway Proving Grounds on Thursday, July 20, 2023. NASA and military personnel have been using ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast desert—essentially, where there's water. And it turns out that one of the most ...

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BAKER, Calif. — To most travelers on Interstate 15 between Barstow and Las Vegas, the Mojave Desert’s jagged Soda Mountains rise above a seemingly lifeless wasteland of hellish sand dunes, lava flows ...