The Latest Breaking News from Mars

The International Space Station "has served its purpose" and should be deorbited "as soon as possible," SpaceX chief and close Trump adviser Elon Musk said today (Feb. 20).

Rippled textures in a shallow lake bed on Mars indicate that ice-free liquid water once pooled here.

An interview with The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala

The polar vortex’s icy grip on much of America has Arctic Greenland seeming like a toasty vacation spot by comparison

"It's probably the project I personally spend the most time on as well."

Earth vs. Mars is expected to be out this summer.

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours is the only planet capable of supporting life, and it seems to have arisen in the form of something like today’s single-celled prokaryotic organisms.

‘If he likes it so much, then let him go,’ says author

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from extraterrestrial sources. Studies of ancient terrestrial rocks suggest liquid water existed on Earth as early as 100 million years after the Sun’s formation–practically “immediately” on an astrophysical timescale.…

For the next few weeks, the planet Mars will form an isosceles triangle with the two bright stars marking the heads of the Gemini Twins, Pollux and Castor.

NASA's Curiosity rover photographed remnants of rippling waves in an ancient Martian lakebed, proving that the Red Planet had open water for longer in its history than previously thought.