Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a ...

The Psyche mission, on its way to study an asteroid of the same name, approached within 2,864 miles of the red planet on May ...

Stephen Kane, a professor of planetary astrophysics at UC Riverside, was skeptical when he read recent studies that showed the gravitational pull from Mars being connected to Earth’s long-term climate ...

Black swans entered the public vernacular in 2007 with the publication of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Black swans are unexpected events, outliers ...

Reading the "Mars Trilogy" by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the red planet into sharp relief. Since the 1970s, when Carl Sagan first suggested the ...

After a picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade spacecraft bound for Mars, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket aced landing on a recovery vessel floating in the Atlantic, helping power a revolution in ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of the Red Planet on May 15, coming within 2,864 miles (4,609 ...

As dawn broke over the Martian landscape, NASA’s Perseverance rover captured an intriguing image of something drifting in the thin Martian atmosphere. This recent sighting builds on a series of ...

A newly released image from the European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed mysterious dark material spread across part of an enormous ancient channel on Mars, a region where water once flowed billions ...