Mars

With all our technological cunning, with everything at our disposal, at this point in human evolution, just how wrong could a human...

A couple weeks ago, NASA grew concerned that their aging Mars rover Opportunity could be in danger, as it lay right in the path of...

New research into Mars' history may revolutionize our image of the Red Planet, including the ongoing investigation into whether it...

Until we have an actual drone flying around Mars, our best shots of Martian landscapes come from still photos taken by rovers or...

We're not strangers to Secureteam10, the YouTube conspiracy theory channel that dubiously has reported on a crashed UFO near...

Earth's closest neighbor is going to be even closer soon, and this should give stargazers a reason to be excited.During July 2018,...

Getting a rover or orbital probe to Mars takes an extraordinary amount of power and top-of-the-line technology from modern space...

Mars has to deal with a lot of meteor impacts, having somewhere around 635,000 craters dotting the entire planet.And the Mars...

Over the past week, NASA's Opportunity rover has found itself in the middle of an encroaching Martian dust storm that's approximately...

As humanity watches Earth's major powers prepare to colonize the Solar System, most of the questions are practical--how will we...

NASA's Opportunity rover has spent well over 5,000 days on Mars, and has survived well past its initial 90 day mission and outlived...

Earlier this week, NASA said they had an announcement regarding Mars which they planned to share on Thursday.And now we know what...

Right now, we're pretty sure that Mars had liquid water on its surface at one point and that it was probably hospitable to life.  ...

A typical spacecraft is large, bulky, and extremely expensive. A CubeSat is not a typical spacecraft.CubeSats are a fairly new and...

Earlier this month, we reported that acidic streams in a small region of Dorset, UK, could give astrobiologists a template for how to...

Do you think you have what it takes to be an astronaut? Are you no-nonsense and good at working alone? Because that won't help...

Back in 2011, a Martian meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert. The official name of the 320-gram rock is Northwest Africa (NWA)...

NASA may be preparing a more advanced version of their Curiosity rover to launch in 2020, but ideally, they still want to keep the...

If you're planning on hitching a ride on a Falcon 9 and starting a new life on a Martian colony growing potatoes, we have some bad...

While Curiosity has been an effective Mars rover, both in what it's discovered and how it's become the anthropomorphized public face...