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Astronomers, for the first time ever, have witnessed visible auroras over Mars — and it dwarfs anything we see on Earth.

Astronomers Stunned as Epic Mars Aurora Covers Entire Planet

By Frank Landymore

NASA has revealed that it's considering reprioritizing its goals to accelerate Elon Musk’s push to send humans to Mars.

NASA Eyes 2026 Mars Launch as Musk Pushes to Skip the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Incoming NASA head and SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman wants to return astronauts to the Moon, defying Elon Musk's desire to skip it.

Incoming Head of NASA Defies Elon Musk on Order to Abandon Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a bizarrely textured rock covered in hundreds of egg-like spheres on Mars, astonishing scientists.

Scientists Puzzled When Mars Rover Finds Egg-Like Rock

By Frank Landymore

Despite SpaceX already being NASA's largest private contractor, Elon Musk is still hellbent on assuming control over the space agency.

Elon Musk Secretly Working to Take Over NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that substances found in Martian dust could be life-threatening to human space travelers, greatly imperiling their health.

Elon Musk’s Mars Colonization Plans Foiled by Pesky Foe

By Victor Tangermann

"We’re a good 15 years away from going to Mars, not five years as Elon Musk alludes to," former NASA astronaut José Hernández told The Hill.

Former NASA Astronaut Says Elon Musk Has No Idea What He’s Talking About

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, again raising the possibility of microbial life.

Readings Show Evidence of Huge Ocean Under Mars’ Surface

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of Elon Musk agitating for it, president Donald Trump isn't interested in making a crewed mission to Mars his "number one" priority.

Trump Throws Elon Musk’s Mars Mission Under the Bus

By Victor Tangermann

The discovery of pale, loose rocks on the Martian surface could suggest that Mars was once a much warmer world.

Scientists Just Scanned Pale Rocks on Mars That May Have Huge Implications

By Frank Landymore

China's Zhurong Mars rover has made a fascinating discovery: "vacation-style" beaches on the shore of an ancient ocean.

Rover Discovers Evidence of Giant Ocean on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's plans to return to the Moon are seemingly on very thin ice. Key senior officials are departing and enthusiasm for Mars is growing.

It Kinda Sounds Like NASA Is Gutting Its Plans for a Moon Landing

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is calling for NASA to ditch its Moon program, arguing that the "Moon is a distraction" and that "we're going straight to Mars.

Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA’s Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long promised to make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent outpost on Mars.

Elon Musk’s Plans for a City on Mars Will Likely End in Horrifying Mass Death

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Mars Rover Exploring Spiderweb-Like Patterns on Mars

NASA Mars Rover Exploring Spiderweb-Like Patterns on Mars

By Frank Landymore

Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't think very highly of multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk's desperate desire to deliver humanity to Mars.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Slams Elon Musk’s Plans for Mars Colonization

By Victor Tangermann

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.

Scientist Says NASA Lander May Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

"Godfather" of AI Yann LeCun has had enough of Elon Musk claiming that electing Kamala Harris would stop humanity from going multi-planetary.

Top AI Researcher Points Out That If Elon Musk Was Rational, He’d Vote for Kamala Harris

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos once gave a cryptic missive to a power broker about wanting to go to Mars — and that power broker wouldn't share his reasoning.

Jeff Bezos Reportedly Has Secretive “Personal Reasons” for Wanting to Escape to Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study, NASA researchers are suggesting something radical: that Mars may be hosting life within its ice.

Life on Mars May be Trapped Under Ice, NASA Researchers Suggest

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have long proposed nuclear rockets to get to Mars fast — but one is warning that making it happen will be an uphill battle.

There’s a Big Problem With Using Nuclear Rockets to Get to Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's plans to fly to Mars grow more ambitious every year — but it's unclear whether he'll live long enough to actually see it happen.

Elon Musk Might Die of Old Age Before He Can Make It to Mars, Expert Suggests

By Noor Al-Sibai

The vast majority of Mars' atmosphere might be trapped in sedimentary rocks lining the Red Planet's surface, which could be used for fuel.

Mars’ Surface Appears to Be Covered in Potential Rocket Fuel, MIT Finds

By Victor Tangermann

The harsh terrain of the Martian surface has done an absolute number on NASA's Curiosity rover's wheels, as a new picture shows.

The Curiosity Mars Rover’s Wheel Looks Absolutely Wrecked

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has encountered a zebra-striped rock on the surface of Mars and it's unlike anything seen on the planet.

NASA Scientists Startled When Mars Rover Finds Rock With Stripes

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least once a decade.

Science & Energy

Scientists Suggest Tiny Black Holes Are Regularly Cruising Through Our Star System

By Victor Tangermann

An astronomer is suggesting that Mars once had a large moon that exerted enough force to create a large bulge on its surface.

Mars Appears to Be Missing a Moon, Astronomer Finds

By Sharon Adarlo

The hidden Mars structures are mysterious because they appear to be significantly denser than their surroundings.

Gravity Mapping Detects Large Hidden Structures Under Surface of Mars

By Frank Landymore

In an embarrassingly idiotic tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk argued that "we will never reach Mars if Kamala wins."

Elon Musk Makes Embarrassingly Stupid Claim: If Trump Loses, Humanity Will Never Make It to Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Almost exactly a hundred years ago, American astronomer David Todd listened for radio signals from Mars as the planet was at opposition.

100 Years Ago, Scientists Looking for Life On Mars Received a Strange Radio Signal

By Frank Landymore

The company is tripping over its own feet to meet a tight NASA deadline.

Ahead of October Launch, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket Explodes During Testing

By Victor Tangermann

Using seismic data, scientists say they've made the first ever detection of liquid water on Mars, trapped miles beneath the planet's surface.

Scientists Discover Massive Reservoir of Water Hiding on Mars

By Frank Landymore

A new study found that we could use metals found on Mars to create particles that would trap heat once released into the planet's atmosphere.

Scientists Propose Low Cost Plan for Terraforming Mars

By Frank Landymore

Robert Zubrin, president and founder of Mars Society, thinks NASA should skip its Moon missions and use Starship to go to Mars — now.

Mars Society President Calls for Starship Mission to Red Planet

By Frank Landymore

Anca Selariu, a microbiologist who lived in the NASA Mars habitat for over a year, found her time inside "absolutely exhilarating."

Crew Who Spent a Year in Simulated NASA Mars Base Say They Spent a Lot of Time Watching TV

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover crushed a rock while exploring — and revealed a treasure of glinting, yellow crystals.

NASA Scientists Startled When Mars Rover Drives Over Rock, Cracking It and Revealing Glinting Crystals Within

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's grand plan for Mars colonization includes, apparently, a long-term dream to create new species on the Red Planet.

Elon Musk Planning to Bioengineer New Species to Live on Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk volunteered his sperm to seed a Martian colony, the New York Times reports, highlighting his obsession with the plan.

Elon Musk Reportedly Offered SpaceX Employees Sperm to Seed Mars Colony

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in China claim to have discovered a kind of desert moss plant that could survive on the surface of Mars.

Scientists Identify Plant That Could Grow on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

One stone in particular is distinctly lighter colored than all the stones surrounding it, a Mars discovery that is "in a league of its own."

NASA Rover Discovers Strange Stones, Never Before Seen on Mars

By Frank Landymore

We regret to inform you that another, significantly larger penis drawing has hit the terrain maps of Mars after a full two decades.

NASA Has Drawn Another Giant Schlong on the Surface of Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered another intriguing formation on the planet's barren surface in the form of a circular pit.

Scientists Intrigued By Almost Perfectly Circular Pit on the Surface of Mars

By Frank Landymore

From these observations, the scientists suggest that Phobos is actually a comet that Mars' gravitational field captured in the distance past.

Mars’ Moon May Not Be What We Think, Scientists Claim

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made up its mind and will continue down a rocky ridge that scientists believe was once a raging river.

NASA Mars Rover Following Path of What Appears to Be Ancient River

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered rocky material that's riddled with manganese, a potential sign of ancient life.

Mars Loaded With Mineral Closely Associated With Life, NASA Rover Finds

By Victor Tangermann

As the Sun reaches solar maximum, NASA scientists hope to see just how much havoc a massive solar storm will wreak on the surface of Mars.

NASA Watching as Sun Blasts Mars to See Effect on Astronauts

By Frank Landymore

Twenty years ago, NASA's Spirit rover drew a dick in Martian dust — a perfect moment in mankind's interstellar history.

A Random Reminder That NASA Drew a Big Ol’ Dick on the Surface of Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has spotted mysterious "spiders" roaming the Red Planet's southern polar region.

Orbiter Spots “Spiders” on Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover came across mysterious puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish during the day.

NASA Ponders Why Gas Produced by Life Is Leaking Out of Mars at Night

By Victor Tangermann

Experts Suggest Using SpaceX’s Starship to Rescue Stranded Samples on Surface of Mars

Experts Suggest Using SpaceX’s Starship to Rescue Stranded Samples on Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

On Mars, a little helicopter from another world bedded down for its final mission on Tuesday: to become a silent sentry on the Red Planet.

Dying Mars Helicopter Sends NASA Final Transmission

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Perseverance rover is on Mars, it had been able to capture Mars’ two moons — Deimos and Phobos — float past in front of the Sun.

Here’s What NASA’s Rovers See During an Eclipse on Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

In a presentation to SpaceX workers at the Starbase facility, Elon Musk highlighted Starship's instrumental role in sustaining humans on Mars.

Elon Musk Delivers Speech About Mars Settlement Plan

By Frank Landymore

Martin Rees, respected British astrophysicist, says Elon Musk's colonization plans for Mars is a "dangerous illusion."

Top Astronomer Warns That Elon Musk’s Mars Plans Are a Dangerous Delusion

By Sharon Adarlo

A Single Asteroid Caused Two Billion Craters on Mars, Scientists Claim

A Single Asteroid Caused Two Billion Craters on Mars, Scientists Claim

By Victor Tangermann

Barack Obama argued that we shouldn't abandon the Earth in favor of Mars after making a possibly irreparable mess of its climate.

Obama Slams Plan to Escape Earth by Colonizing Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered changes in ocean currents linked to "2.4 million-year climate cycles," which are correlated to Mars' and Earth's orbit.

Mars’ Gravity Causing Huge Currents Deep in Earth’s Ocean, Scientists Suggest

By Victor Tangermann

Image Shows Mars Helicopter With Blade Completely Snapped Off

Image Shows Mars Helicopter With Blade Completely Snapped Off

By Frank Landymore

NASA's tiny Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has seen its last days — but its friend, the Perseverance rover, hasn't said goodbye just yet.

NASA Rover Spots Dead Mars Helicopter in Its “Final Resting Place”

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be losing about 530 people or 8 percent of its staff, plus around 40 contractors in mass lay offs.

Mass Layoffs Hit NASA

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA is debating whether to work with commercial partners to get to Mars, the first time the space agency has openly raised the possibility.

NASA Investigating Whether It Could Hire SpaceX for Mars Trip

By Victor Tangermann

Ingenuity, NASA's recently-damaged Mars helicopter, has one last task before its mission is officially over: wiggling around a little.

Derelict Helicopter Will Twitch on Mars, NASA Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA shared pictures following its Ingenuity Mars helicopter's final flight, showing some gnarly damage to its four rotor blades.

Photos Show Catastrophic Damage to Mars Helicopter

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have confirmed NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is indeed exploring an ancient lake. Will its collected samples hold signs of life?

Scientists Suspect Mars Rover Could Have Already Scooped Up Signs of Life

By Victor Tangermann