Martian dust might look harmless from millions of miles away, but up close, it could pose a serious threat to your health. As ...

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists ...

Lichens are true pioneers, setting themselves up in environments so harsh as to be considered virtually barren.

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With evidence pointing to serious kidney challenges, careful planning will be needed to keep crews healthy on space journeys ...

Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a global magnetic field and interacts with the solar wind directly. Over billions of years, this interaction has stripped much of the Martian atmosphere, transforming the ...

At left is NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, with a circle indicating the location of the calibration target for the rover's ...

Trump aims to send a crew to Mars by the end of his term, which Musk calls 'doable.' Astronauts question the time frame but said a flight would soon be possible ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...