Colonizing Mars and terraforming it to be a comfortable future home for humanity is quite the challenge. How would we go ...

Peggy Hollinger The planet Mars as imagined and read by science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson. Kim Stanley Robinson ...

Scientists simulated the conditions of Mars in a lab to observe how blocks of carbon dioxide "dug" their way through the ...

Elon Musk says he wants to send one million people to Mars by the year 2050. The SpaceX CEO has become famous for making huge ...

That's why, when a movie version of the influential first-person shooter "Doom" blasted its way into multiplexes in October ...

Three photographers in New Zealand capture rare red sprites, a fleeting lightning phenomenon, while shooting the Milky Way, ...

Microbiologists at the University of Houston confirmed that a bacterium found in NASA spacecraft assembly rooms, called Tersicoccus phoenicis, will go dormant when it runs out of food.

NASA is looking for new ideas for moon landers to help astronauts return to the surface of the moon as progress for SpaceX's ...

NASA is looking for more ideas for Artemis III lunar landers amid concerns for the progress of SpaceX's Starship megarocket.

EARLY in his first term, US President Donald Trump held a modest ceremony directing Nasa to return humans to the moon for the ...

Recent sightings of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have sparked discussions of Jewish hopes and fears about extraterrestrial ...

Not everything about space is true. Our planetary scientist is here to share the truth about popular celestial myths.