Mars

Earth currently has an extremely limited amount of Martian rocks to study. We've never managed a successful round trip flight to and...

As one of the first men to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, Buzz Aldrin is a revered astronaut who's had to keep himself...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is no spring chicken — the space probe first launched all the way back in 2005.And after over...

Despite the superstar status of scientists like Albert Einstein (who upended Newtonian physics from a Swiss patent office) and Richard...

Right now, in the barren Oman desert, a group of would-be astronauts is roaming around in aluminum space suits, training for what...

While NASA prepares their fancy Mars 2020 rover to be launched in... well, 2020, the previous Mars rover is still running extremely...

After six years of exploring Mars, Curiosity has only traveled a total of about 11 miles across the Martian surface.   Despite the...

Based on everything we've discovered thus far, Mars isn't exactly an ideal vacation destination.There may not be much danger of rain...

Scientists at Berkeley are hard at work creating what they've named "liquid sunlight," a process by which solar light is used to turn...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is teaming up with Roscosmos, the Russian equivalent of NASA, for ExoMars, an ongoing, long-term...

It's a big day for NASA: New Mars lander InSight just passed its crucial first test in its ability to search for alien life on the...

Mars One and its flagship project to colonize the Red Planet with a small group of trained laypeople has been called a lot of...

Searching for signs of life on Mars is no easy task, for lots of fairly obvious reasons. Testing out any possible strategy is tough...

At an official facility in Nevada, the US government is currently testing a prototype miniature nuclear reactor that should one...

The search for life on other planets is still pretty inefficient. While the vast majority of instruments on astrobiology missions are...

There's an awful lot we still don't know about Phobos, one of the two moons in Mars' orbit, and images from NASA's Mars Global...

For decades, scientists have speculated about the history of the planet Mars.While for the most part, the Red Planet is currently...

From the sound of it, traveling to Mars is going to be an absolute (and possibly literal) nightmare. After years of cramped...

When it comes to exploring Mars, its two moons seem to offer a safe and practical vantage point. Instead of landing on the red planet...

Finding water on Mars is always exciting. The Red Planet is always thought of in popular culture as being one step less habitable than...