Before June comes to a close, the red planet (Mars) will cruise past the compact cluster of blue-white stars tucked inside the constellation of Taurus Alan Dyer/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via ...

Mars' innermost moon, Phobos, has long puzzled planetary scientists, who have continually debated whether it's a captured asteroid or formed from debris after a giant impactor struck the Martian ...

We’re interested in the early-morning sky today as the waning crescent Moon joins up with Mars in Aries. Now just 11% lit, the Moon sits almost directly above the Red Planet as they rise. Above both ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...

The Psyche mission, on its way to study an asteroid of the same name, approached within 2,864 miles of the red planet on May 15 Carlyn Kranking | Associate Web Editor, Science As the Psyche spacecraft ...

A NASA spacecraft bound for an unusual metallic asteroid recently made a strategic flyby of Mars — and its cameras captured a rare perspective of the red planet along the way. The Psyche mission, ...

A round trip from Earth to Mars takes about three years. New research suggests a potential shortcut to Mars, inspired by an asteroid's orbital path, that would reduce the journey to as little as 153 ...

Researchers found geological features that suggest a massive ocean once covered a third of the planet. NASA's Curiosity rover discovered seven organic molecules never before seen on Mars. These ...

Mars may have once had an ocean so vast that it covered one-third of the planet before evaporating billions of years ago and leaving behind a telltale sign: a flat band of land, outlining the former ...

Incoming views of Mars usually show its dusty, tan-colored surface littered with rocks, a familiar desert-like world that has looked more or less the same for millions of years. However, a new image ...

Planetary scientists agree that Mars used to have liquid water on its surface and a water-rich atmosphere, far different from its current arid state. But an accounting of all the sources of water to ...

In a new book, the historian Mark Peterson argues that our founding document is rooted in ideals of expansion and conquest ill suited to the nation we’ve become. By Claire Rydell Arcenas Claire Rydell ...