In a presentation at this week's American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer from Arizona State University reported on a putative biosignature—a sign of past or present life—on Mars. They suggest that outcrops of ...

An unearthly scene altogether, the polar cap at Mars' South Pole - a mosaic of layers of dry ice occurring naturally on the Red Planet - is one terrain Earth and Mars do not have in common. This image is a stereo pair of the Mars' South Pole taken by ...

Going to Mars, said John Logsdon of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, "depends on how quickly the international effort to go back to the Moon can be assembled, how much budget the US spends on that, what the level of the NASA ...

NASA is planning on sending a new orbiter to Mars. It'll be a chance to replace some aging hardware and also to get some more amazing science images and data from the Red Planet, in anticipation of more robotic missions to Mars and a possible human ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Parts of Mars were capable of supporting life as we know it for lengthy stretches in the ancient past - perhaps hundreds of millions of years at a time, new observations by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity suggest. Since it landed inside ...

The Mars Society is conducting the ambitious two-phase Mars 160 Twin Desert-Arctic Analogue mission to study how seven crewmembers could live, work and perform science on a true mission to Mars. Mars 160 crewmember Annalea Beattie is chronicling ...

Due to overwhelming demand, Bruno Mars has added a third Chicago date to his massive world tour in support of his latest album "24K Magic.

Just as Spiro Agnew's Space Task Group of 1969, they mindlessly push for the United States to send astronauts to Mars because .

To put it more bluntly: It is really, really cold out there. An entire 80 percent of the country will have temperatures below freezing within the next week, CNN reports.

Mars Society crewmembers simulating a Martian mission starred in a unique 360-degree video yesterday (Dec. 13) as they emerged from the habitat where they spent 80 days.

SAN FRANCISCO - NASA doesn't plan to put any science instruments aboard SpaceX's first Mars mission, which could launch as early as 2018, agency officials said.

In 1964, Mariner 4 became the first spacecraft to successfully arrive at Mars. While some scientists of the time were expecting a world much like our own, one filled with rivers, oceans, and maybe even life, Mariner's images instead unveiled a heavily ...

There are a few different models used to calculate the maximum height of a mountain. They factor in things like the amount of energy needed to liquify rock, the shear strength of the rock, the density, etc.

If playing with Legos while pretending to solve missions on Mars is school work, it didn't look that way during the sixth-grade science class at Wyoming Seminary Lower School on Thursday.

Throughout the month, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune and Jupiter can be seen on various days and at different locations across the sky, though it is Mars that is capturing my attention. Find it in the southwest after sunset, though it might have been be ...

Mars, the food company known for its candy bars, is investing $72 million in its Fort Smith pet food plant after receiving a $500,000 incentive from the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

"The Dry Valleys of Antarctica are about as close as you can get to Mars without a spaceship," Joe Levy tells The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti.