NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just captured its first image of the Curiosity rover driving along the red planet’s surface. The 2,000-pound Mars rover is shown as a dark speck in the ...

OAKLAND – The Oakland Unified School District elected-board officially fired the superintendent on Wednesday at a contentious meeting where they gave no reasoning for the dismissal. The board ...

The capsule will eventually be launched into space and orbit the Moon, providing a pit stop for astronauts heading to Mars. Once construction is completed in Gilbert, the capsule will be sent to ...

Social media has been a buzz this week about an event Friday morning before sunrise. The Moon will pass near Venus and Saturn. It will look pretty cool, but not that cool. In reality, Venus and ...

The eroded mesa in Mars' Cydonia Region captured by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE cameras in 2007 compared to 1976 Viking 1 Orbiter image made popular by supermarket tabloids for its ...

"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." Though Mars, the Red Planet, is a vast and inhospitable land today, scientists ...

NASA scientists have been left baffled after the Perseverance rover captured a bizarre image on Mars that looks eerily like a skull perched on a hilltop. Dubbed "Skull Hill" by the team ...

On Earth and Mars, iron and magnesium are some of the main contributors to igneous rocks, which form from the cooling of magma or lava,' the space agency said. 'These rocks can include dark ...

There is evidence that at least some water existed on the surface of Mars around 4bn years ago. Exactly where this water came from, however, remains a mystery. Some theories suggest that ancient ...

He has no desire to live on Mars. “I can’t wait to get back to Earth,” my passenger said. “I don’t know how you can live here.” We were cruising along the red plain in my big treader ...

As he puts it in his smart and wonderfully readable new book, “More Everything Forever,” life on Mars is bound to be worse than life on our own planet, however much ecological havoc we have ...