The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.” The plot drew me in, with its depiction of the “Genesis Project” – a new ...

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos wants to move industry off Earth to save the planet. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, wants to move ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

A bidder here on Earth shelled out a lot of green for a piece of the red planet on Wednesday when Sotheby's put a Martian meteorite up for auction. NWA 16788, the largest piece of Mars on Earth, ...

As we travel from Mars’s equator toward the planet’s northern regions, we arrive at Coloe Fossae. This landscape is characterized by long, shallow grooves that cut across an area filled with steep ...

Elon Musk is many things: mega-billionaire, electric car mogul, meme poster. With such a tsunami of descriptors, it can be easy to overlook a simple question: What does Mr. X want? The answer, ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris ...