After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is behind the sun from Earth's point of view in space — scientists began planning ...

A radio glitch Tuesday between the Phoenix Mars Lander and a Mars orbiter delayed the start of planned science experiments on the red planet. Mission leaders at the University of Arizona had hoped to ...

LIGHTHAVEN, ONE kilometre down Telegraph Avenue from the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is a rambling conference facility which dedicates itself to “hosting events and programmes ...

Far away on desolate Mars, a set of dust and rock samples awaits a ride that might never come. After years in limbo, NASA’s groundbreaking Mars Sample Return (MSR) programme, which was supposed to ...

Advances in synthetic biology, planetary engineering, and ultra-low-cost launch systems have dramatically altered how ...