Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover.

NASA has found potential signs of life on Mars, the agency said last Wednesday. Although additional scientific study is ...

The polar vortex itself forms because of Mars’s tilted axis, which creates seasons much like Earth’s. Each northern winter, a ...

Neptune, the planet of spirituality, intuition, and mysticism, rules over the number 7 and Pisces energy. Therefore, this ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

Last week NASA announced the "clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars". Amazing news, or a "crushing blow" for humanity?

A rare glimpse into the wintry conditions of the Mars north polar vortex has shown that temperatures inside the vortex are ...

Colonizing Mars and terraforming it to be a comfortable future home for humanity is quite the challenge. How would we go ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

After a year of scientific scrutiny, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover has been confirmed to contain a potential biosignature. The sample is the best candidate so far to provide ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...