Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

Fantasizing about life on Mars is more escapism than solution; this article breaks down the real reasons we should stop looking to the stars and start fixing what’s right here on Earth.

Humanity is far from colonizing Mars, but that’s not stopping a group of space enthusiasts from practicing anyway. CNBC ...

A warm afternoon on ancient Mars lasted about as long as a Silicon Valley internship. That is the sobering conclusion of a ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

Researchers are developing bioplastic bubbles from algae that could grow, repair, and protect habitats on Mars without ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

Unfortunately, NASA’s search for life on Mars has come up empty thus far, but that doesn’t mean the space agency is giving up. While we have come close to finding signs of life on Mars, ...

Life on Mars may have been found -- before it was accidentally destroyed during a prior NASA mission, one scientist has suggested. In 1975, just six years after Apollo 11 touched down on the moon ...

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

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...