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The founder of the Mars Society has accused SpaceX CEO Elon Musk of derailing existing plans to explore and eventually visit ...

A new panorama from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows one of the red planet's biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, poking through a canopy of clouds just before dawn.

A new panorama from NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows one of the Red Planet’s biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, poking through a canopy of clouds just before dawn. Arsia Mons and two other volcanoes ...

The Deuteronilus Cavus crater has been shaped by water, wind, ice and volcanic erosion over billions of years, showcasing ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery. Astronomers ...

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between ...

During the month of June you will be able to see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter in the sky at different times.

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Robert Zubrin quite literally wrote the book on why humanity should go to Mars—so why has the renowned aerospace engineer ...

Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, has a bold vision for sending Starship to Mars. Experts weigh in on what's realistic ...

In a new paper, a group of planetary scientists, biologists, and engineers make the case for treating Mars as the ultimate ...