MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., — Why would anyone choose to spend a week in the dusty, desolate desert? That is just what a team of more than 30 NASA scientists, world-renowned planetary experts and teachers ...

DHOFAR DESERT, Oman – The desolate desert in southern Oman, near the borders of Yemen and Saudi Arabia, resembles Mars so much that more than 200 scientists from 25 nations have chosen it as their ...

Ask a dozen folks what they love most about White Sands National Park, and you’ll get a dozen different answers. Some come to this park, about 100 miles north of El Paso, New Mexico, to careen down ...

DHOFAR DESERT, Oman (AP) — Two scientists in spacesuits, stark white against the auburn terrain of desolate plains and dunes, test a geo-radar built to map Mars by dragging the flat box across the ...