A recent photo from NASA's Curiosity rover gives an idea of what Mars would look like under skies that resemble our own on ...

NASA Curiosity rover, which launched from Florida in 2011, captured panoramic image of Mars that resembles a sunset on Earth.

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

Mars is no longer just a story about a single lost ocean or one fleeting window for biology. Taken together, recent rover ...

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer (and uncle of the fashion icon Elsa), started making a map of ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

From Dec. 6 through Feb. 23, Mars will enter retrograde motion, a period of about 10 weeks where the red planet will appear to move backward in the sky. Are you experiencing inner tension, heightened ...