Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

In all our explorations of Mars to date, no evidence has been found that meets the rigorous standards to claim that we have ...

Data from China's Zhurong rover has revealed what appears to be an ancient shoreline streaking through Mars' northern ...

TL;DR: NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft, which landed on Mars in 1975, aimed to test for life using water-based methods.

"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was ...

That effect may be concerning as it involves Musk’s Mars ambitions. Hitherto, Artemis has been envisioned to send astronauts ...

The 1976 Viking landers were the first U.S. missions to land on Mars, conducting the only experiments dedicated to detecting ...

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were ...

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars ’ “Die With a Smile” bounds four spots to No. 1 on Billboard ’s Pop Airplay chart (dated Nov. 23).

Firming up plans to go to Mars would be fine, so long as it is not done at the expense of returning to the moon.