Extraplanetary spacefaring has a hoary history in science fiction. Elon Musk, our so-touted Mars visionary, is an avid sci-fi reader. A book he acknowledges as ...

While in orbit, Proctor needed to take medicine ... and has been seen wearing a T-shirt that says “NUKE MARS.” SpaceX notes on its Web site that the red planet “is a little cold, but we ...

In the first installment of her column "Hidden Gems from a Black Girl Engineering Major," Cayla Withers writes about the ...

The image of the square comes from NASA’s now-defunct Mars Global Surveyor and its Mars Orbiter Camera. MOC snapped the square’s region in 2001. The full image shows a slice of material within ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." ...

This image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in 2018 and was reshared by NASA recently. Mars has four seasons similar to those on Earth. That's because Mars' orbit spins on an ...

New images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the rover's ...

Every now and then, robots on the surface of Mars, or the spacecraft orbiting ... However, it does come from a real image taken by the orbiter, showing a square(ish) feature, assuming you fill ...

But the distance between Earth and Mars is constantly changing as they orbit the sun. In theory, the closest that Earth and Mars would approach each other would be when Mars is at its closest ...

And, using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, they determined that the clays present along the slopes match those found on the plateau as well. Their conclusion from this is that the ...