Elon Musk wants to turn one of humanity’s biggest problems into the fuel for its boldest journey. Instead of treating carbon ...

(NEW YORK) — Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its ...

The current image of Mars as an arid and hostile desert contrasts sharply with the history revealed by its surface. Channels, ...

This artist’s impression shows multiple small devices soaring on sunlight at the edges of Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists have devised tiny featherweight disks that could float on sunlight in Earth’s ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.

Sending anything to Mars is a much more difficult process than it seems. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union tried (and failed) in its first nine consecutive attempts, and the US was only able to succeed ...

The Moon is a pretty peculiar object. It is believed that it formed from the incredible collision between the proto-Earth and ...

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...

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