Mars

From Texas Standard:It's not often that the Los Angeles times covers news with a Texas slant, but this time, it was somewhat unavoidable.Last week, the…

NASA's InSight probe is set to land on Mars this afternoon at around 2 p.m. CST. Launched in May, the probe will end its journey to the Red Planet, where…

There's a new probe on Mars. After Monday's tricky landing, NASA's InSight spacecraft is to deploy a sensitive seismometer and temperature probe to let scientists explore the planet's interior.

From Texas Standard.Long before David Bowie ever posed the musical question, mankind has been asking, “Is there life on Mars?” After decades of research,…

The streaks on the Red Planet's surface appear to be caused by salty water, but how much water there is — and where it comes from — remains a mystery.

Today, NASA will announce a "major science finding" from the space agency's exploration of Mars. While some suggest the press conference will finally…

The rolling NASA laboratory called Curiosity kicked off what's expected to be a two-year mission on the Red Planet with a tricky automated landing in a Martian crater.