Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping construction materials from Earth, researchers are exploring how to use ...

On Saturday, the U.S. invaded Venezuela at the direction of President Trump to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power. Maduro and his wife were captured and have been transported to New York to ...

Mars and Martians. They go together in the public's mind. The Earthling fascination with "alien invaders" goes back a long time. But why? And what does it say about all of us here on Earth? Dean ...

The search for life on Mars may continue, but the search for life going to Mars just took a big turn. Way back in 2007, scientists took samples from the cleanroom where the Phoenix Mars rover was ...

Before humans ever set foot on Mars, fleets of autonomous robots will be doing the heavy lifting — from building habitats to mining ice and assembling power systems. NASA and private space companies ...

Last week, NASA revealed that it had lost the signal from its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, one of just seven Earthly probes currently orbiting Mars. The agency failed to ...

The Stones hadn’t coughed up any of their commercial momentum heading into the 80s. Their first single of the decade, “Emotional Rescue”, went to the Top 10. However, relations between band leaders ...

One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to troubleshoot the issue. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

The next beat ’em up from developer Tribute Games, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, is a great title that builds on what the team made with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. But it’s not ...

Maddie Fisher is a writer, journalist and game developer. She was born and raised on the east coast, having started working in games journalism over fifteen years ago. She tends to enjoy musical ...