It’s been a lofty goal America's leaders have set their sights on for generations, and President Donald Trump kicked off his ...

These rocks turned out to contain a mineral called kaolinite, which on Earth forms in warm, rainy environments or near hot ...

It [was] obvious these people were dying for some reason, but they were humans. They were just twice our size.' ...

The race to Mars has intensified, with two major players leading the charge—NASA and SpaceX. NASA, a government-backed agency ...

A new method to detect life in ancient rocks could help analyze Mars samples and determine if life once existed on the red ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

Elon Musk has insisted it is essentially a matter of life and death that we find somewhere off Earth to colonize.

If life exists on other planets, it needs to be adaptable to extreme environments. To get a clue of what it might look like, ...

In his 1957 collection of short stories, The Seedling Stars, US writer James Blish explored the topic of modifying humans to ...

Thanks to new research techniques published today, scientists say that "our understanding of why Mars is red has been ...

Building homes on Mars might require more than just cutting-edge technology; it may also demand something that feels straight ...