After a daredevil landing on Mars this week, NASA's new rover Curiosity is gearing up for the long haul on the Red Planet. But the rover still has time to star in a new National Geographic documentary ...

Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

The car-sized rover Curiosity had a clean landing on Mars five months ago. But planetary missions didn’t always run so smoothly at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mariner 3, a probe sent to do a ...

Hollywood has always been a copycat industry, and there are countless instances of two movies of similar natures, settings, and themes being in development at the same time and released in close ...

The rusty world is full of mysteries—and some of the solar system's most extreme geology. Learn more about Earth's smaller, colder neighbor.

As a contributor to the documentary Blue Planet Red, I would like to address the criticism in Simon Ings’s review that xenon-129’s presence in the Martian atmosphere implies ancient nuclear conflict ...

It's been a good few decades for fans of sci-fi movies that approach space travel from an at least somewhat realistic perspective. There've been IMAX epics ("Interstellar"), action thrillers in space ...