Mars

A piece of Mars will soon be coming back to Earth. A whole clump of Mars, actually, and possibly more than that.NASA and the European...

The Curiosity rover has been an invaluable (and, at times, lovable) contribution to our ever growing knowledge on Mars. Particularly...

The idea that Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos (named after the Greek gods of Fear and Panic respectively), were created by an enormous...

To prepare for missions to Mars, NASA tests out its tech in extreme locales like Death Valley, Calif., and Lake Vostok in Antarctica,...

Mars is home to the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, but the Red Planet may be tallying another supervolcano...

SpaceX and Boeing, being competing aerospace companies in a brand new space race, have naturally developed a rivalry.And when SpaceX...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) may be on its last legs as it continues to break down, but it's still capable of sending back...

At this point, it's pretty much assured that we're going to see colonists on Mars within our lifetime: between Elon Musk's almost...

When Mars One was founded by Bas Lansdorp and Arno Wielders in 2011, its stated goal was to establish a human settlement on Mars by...

Mars doesn't experience earthquakes (or rather, "marsquakes") in the same way Earth does, because Mars doesn't have appear to have...

Mars, the closest planet to the Earth, is a barren wasteland.The world has no atmosphere, and its surface is covered in dust and rock,...

How do you lose an ocean? How does an entire alien civiliization go extinct?These are questions that have baffled scientists for a...

By now, Scott C. Waring is pretty much a fixture in the world of alien conspiracy theories, especially when it comes to Mars--he...

The Curiosity Rover is easily the most popular object on Mars right now. Nearly all of NASA's Mars rovers have had the same "face",...

Mars has been at the center of attention for years now, but most people still don't know about Tharsis, a massive volcanic plateau...

The successor to previous Mars rovers like Curiosity and Opportunity is launching in just a couple years (although those older rovers...

For some reason, Mars has a lot of metals that shouldn't be there. Specifically, there's a lot more "iron loving" elements...

Hot on the heels of NASA's plan to send the new Mars 2020 rover to the Red Planet, Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia will be...

Back in 2015, the Curiosity rover spotted some anomalous material on the surface of Mars.Somehow, against all odds, the rover had...

If you picked up Andy Weir's Artemis this past year, then you probably got a glimpse of what space colonization will look like on...