HE WAS the child genius who claimed to be the reincarnation of a Martian, shocking the world with tales of spaceships, ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars since 2014, went quiet abruptly in early December. Efforts to reestablish a ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded sounds from Mars dust devils and revealed tiny electric sparks shaping the planet’s ...

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, but what if the red planet actually delivered life to Earth in the first place?

Iceland's stark, volcanic landscapes offer NASA a crucial terrestrial analogue for Mars exploration. Scientists study its ...

"How do you get to Mars when the launch vehicle is not necessarily going to Mars?" ...

When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The plot drew me in with its depiction of the “Genesis Project”—a new technology ...

When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.” The plot drew me in, with its depiction of the “Genesis Project” – a new ...

Off Earth, identical atomic clocks won’t agree; gravity, motion and relativity make time flow differently, so Earth and Mars ...

Venus appears in the southwestern sky at dusk, while the pair of Jupiter and Saturn rule the roost at nightfall in the southeast. Mercury is currently invisible in the sun's glare but will return for ...