A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...

New Orleans trumpeter and composer Steve Lands reinterprets Gustav Holst's "The Planets" on his album "Rearranging the ...

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure ...

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one — liquid ...

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one: liquid ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.