Mars may look like a frozen desert today, but new evidence suggests its watery past didn’t simply fade away quietly—it may ...

Each of Curiosity’s six wheels is just 0.75 millimeters thick, about half the thickness of a U.S. dime. Machined from a ...

An accident on Mars revealed the surprising contents of an otherwise unremarkable rock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A rock on ...

The so-called Candor Tetrahedron. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona) It would be tempting to assume there's nothing much of note ...

Mars is an extreme environment. Surface temperatures average about minus 60 degrees Celsius, the atmosphere is thin and composed mostly of carbon dioxide, radiation levels are high, and gravity is ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...

This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the New Scientist Book Club read for April, as humans come to the ...

As the New Scientist Book Club reads Kim Stanley Robinson’s science-fiction novel in April, George Bass digs into why this 1992 book still feels so relevant today ...