Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait reminded readers that t...  ...Phil Plait reminded readers that the "Red Planet" Mars gets its color from iron oxide (rust). Yet on anc...  ...its color from iron oxide (rust). Yet on ancient Mars , water was abundant and white cloud cover was pre...  ...ware engineer Kevin Gill to cre...

Professor Carl Agee at the University of New Mexic...  ...ved to be the first meteorite from the surface of Mars . The specimen is 2.1 billion years old and roughl...  ...he space rock: "This opens a whole new window on Mars ."Read more on this story at the Los Angeles Times...

Stanford University researchers are working with NASA to design a spiked space apparatus capable of maneuvering efficiently across asteroid and moon surfaces, on which low gravity and rough terrain would bog down a regul...

Wait -- Mars is made out of candy? Let's go! This Curiosity Ro...

[http://vimeo.com/54130221] (vimeo link)Enjoy a be...  ...njoy a beautiful and contemplative tribute to the Mars Curiosity rover. The analogy is that of a child g...

One of the challenges of living beyond the Earth's...  ...ty rover indicate that this won't be a problem on Mars :"The astronauts can live in this environment," Do...  ...ews conference."Basically, we're finding that the Mars atmosphere is acting as a shield for the radiatio...

The Curiosity rover took a vanity shot. In...  ...e the rover sitting comfortably on the surface of Mars . Stuart Atkinson, an amateur astronomer, put the...

Last month, after publishing my interview with NAS...  ...y member of the JPL team that landed the rover on Mars .If you’ve been living under a rock the past...  ...ff on an 8 1/2-month, 354 million-mile journey to Mars . She’s the largest rover ever sent to the R...  ...experiments once landing safe...

It looks like a rack of homemade candles, but the...  ...e.The enterprise has been processing waste from a Mars factory producing the colored M&M's. The wast...

Many cities and towns around the world have a link...  ...; with another place with the same name. Glenelg, Mars , is the designated name of the spot that the Mars Curiosity rover is headed toward.The valley of Gl...