On November 26, 2018, NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission landed on Mars. This was a major milestone in Mars exploration since it ...

Recent studies have unveiled compelling evidence suggesting that Mars once hosted vast oceans. Analyzing soil samples and satellite imagery, scientists have pieced together a picture of the Red Planet ...

Some Las Vegans have been looking to the sky for hints of alien life for decades, but UNLV geoscience professor Libby Hausrath has gotten closer than any of them to finding sound proof. This isn’t any ...

In a photo provided by Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands, earthworms crawl around in a pot of simulated Mars soil and arugula plants. College students at Villanova University found ...

Researchers identified a species that can survive radiation, extreme heat and simulated Martian soil, posing a new challenge ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

The idea of building settlements on Mars is a popular goal of billionaires, space agencies and interplanetary enthusiasts. But construction demands materials, and we can't ship it all from Earth: it ...

You know how smug tourists like to talk about how climbing volcanoes in Hawaii is out of this world? Turns out they're sort of right. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is finally starting to get some ...