The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for ...

One of my gripes with "The Martian" movie was the depiction of the winds on Mars. The lower air density means that the sort ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

Anyone could make a mistake in thinking that the “fiction” bit of science fiction absolves the genre of any responsibility to ...

One day humanity might settle the Red Planet, but how will we grow food on world more barren than any desert or tundra on ...

The mystique of Mars has been studied for centuries. The fourth planet from the Sun is reminiscent of a rich, red desert and features a rugged surface challenging to traverse. While several robotic ...

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics ...

In his prepared remarks, Trump, a longtime backer of U.S.-led space exploration and exploitation, singled out Mars and left ...

Boise State physics professor Brian Jackson worked with NASA to get access to Ingenuity flight data. He used it to analyze ...

In reality, the total time the red planet is hidden will be approximately 1 hour and 8 minutes. The time of occultation is lengthened due to the rotation and orbital motion of Earth and Mars.

On Tuesday evening, six planets will line up in the night's sky - Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Best ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...