“On the one hand, it’s a silly, kind of dumb show about mice from Mars on Earth,” Volk-Weiss admits, “But on the other hand, because we take the characters so seriously, and we take the world very ...

Bypassing the moon and sending crews straight to Mars would be a serious error. Credit: NASA We’ve observed with concern a rising trend in human spaceflight ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth. For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has ...