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 ...

For decades, scientists have theorized about how Mars reached its current state. Many believe that the Red Planet's surface may have once been covered in rivers and oceans. But, if that's really the ...

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Mars doesn’t whisper. Mars doesn’t hint. Mars blazes through your life with the subtlety of a lightning strike. Your Mars sign—the zodiac sign Mars occupied when you were born—reveals how you take ...

We're getting closer and closer to definitely answering the question: Did life ever exist on Mars? April has been a pivotal month for the search for ancient life on the now-barren red planet, where ...

Libby Hausrath leads a team involved in Perseverance Rover’s mission to collect samples from Mars. Libby Hausrath leads a team of researchers involved in the Perseverance Rover’s mission to collect ...

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer (and uncle of the fashion icon Elsa), started making a map of ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it’s telling us something about what the planet’s ...