Explore the Viking mission to Mars in this vintage film. Witness the spacecraft launch, Mars landing, and search for life on ...

While Utah is home to some extraordinary sites—including archaeological gems like Lake Powell's stunning Tritylodontid mammaliaform fossil discovery from 2023 and natural wonders like Helper’s ...

Though full terraforming may take centuries, if not millennia, the long-term goal would be a Mars with stable liquid water, ...

Earth’s sister planet reaches greatest western elongation and dichotomy as the waxing Moon slides along the ecliptic in the ...

In the distance, a twisting plume of red dust - what scientists call a dust devil - spiraled across the landscape near the ...

NASA hasn’t landed humans on Mars yet. But thanks to robotic missions, scientists now know more about the planet’s surface ...

NASA hasn't landed humans on Mars yet. But thanks to robotic missions, scientists now know more about the planet's surface ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover captured a Martian dust devil in the background of a May 10 selfie taken at Witch Hazel ...

It might be surprising to hear planetary scientist Nina Lanza use the word “disappointing” in the same sentence as “Mars.” After all, the Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher has dedicated her ...

A decade after the release of "The Martian" and a decade out from the world it envisions, how close is reality to fiction?

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...