Mars keeps refusing to behave like the dead, simple world many scientists once imagined. Each new rover trench, fractured ...

Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6.

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Planetary scientist Tom Van Flandern argued that the solar system did not form the way it was taught in schools. He believed ...

Bizarre 'bleached' rocks on the surface of Mars suggest that the Red Planet was once a tropical oasis, a new study reveals.

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Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

In 1941, an Alton officer directs traffic at Broadway and Piasa ...

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