A strange formation spotted deep within a massive Martian canyon is once again fueling debate over whether something more ...

But sometimes the most fascinating way to explore history is by asking a simple question: what if things had gone differently? Alternate history stories take familiar timelines and twist them, ...

Evidence of alien life or cosmic pyramid scheme? A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian ...

New experimental results have cast doubt on earlier proposals suggesting that spherical, cell-like membranes could form in ...

If you’ve spent your entire life looking at the night sky from a city or suburb, you’ve basically been watching the universe ...

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a pivot from Mars to the moon, one detail of his plan caused eyebrows to raise. Musk plans to build something called a mass driver on the lunar surface to deploy AI ...

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has been exploring a curious geological formation made up of ridges up to six feet in height for the last six months. Scientists theorize that the “boxwork” formations were ...

Elon Musk has repeatedly emphasized that no matter how financially successful SpaceX may be, the company will have failed in his eyes if the primary objective – the colonization of Mars – is not ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The salt flats of Salar de Pajonales, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert, are thought of as an analog for the extreme conditions found on Mars.

Dining on the moon or Mars might seem like a fantasy reserved for science fiction, but researchers are investigating how it could become a reality. Their efforts to recycle plant and human waste into ...

Editor's Note: The Question of the Week will return next Sunday. Last week I asked what you thought about Elon Musk's pivot away from Mars to concentrate more on establishibng a city on the moon. I ...

SpaceX has pursued its founder’s dream of reaching Mars for decades, but now that Elon Musk has shifted the company’s focus to the Moon, another aerospace firm appears prepared to take the lead in the ...