A strange rock on Mars is raising new questions about the possibility of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. According ...

Musk—who has a history of setting unrealized goals for his companies—says he wants to send humans to Mars by 2029, though he ...

As I write this, Aamir Khan, one of India's finest and most enigmatic actors, has just turned 60. On the eve of his birthday, ...

In “The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire,” Gee examines the many reasons why the human race finds itself in multiple ...

Last week, science delivered a really cute experimental result. Researchers created a “colossal woolly mouse,” a fluffy rodent that’s purported to be a step on the way to resurrecting woolly mammoths ...

Rocks loafing about on the surface of Mars have been harboring secrets about the red planet's mysterious past.

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

Imagine the solar system's planets throwing a Bollywood dance party. Each planet has its unique dance move. Mercury moves ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s. It was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.