Sarah Stewart Johnson explores humanity’s fascination with the Red Planet in ‘The Sirens of Mars.’ We’ll read it together this spring. The Sirens of Mars is described as “deeply personal” and “a vivid ...

There is no life on the moon. The 2020 election was not rigged. I have no direct evidence to support any of these claims, but ...

Science writer David Baron explores the initial interest in whether there was life on Mars in his latest book, "The Martians: ...

Science writer Kate Greene couldn’t have known that her memoir about her time on a make-believe Mars mission would be published as millions of people on Earth isolated themselves in their homes for ...

The promise of starting life anew on Mars may appear alluring, even feasible, as the climate crisis intensifies and space and rocket technology advances. But the reality would be dreadful, according ...

We read about caves on the Moon, uncomfortably detailed orbital mating concepts, space madness, Moon law, plans for Martian company towns, hopes for new ways of life in distant worlds. We read dozens ...

It wasn't until maybe a year before we were done writing — and we wrote for four years — that we decided this book is actually about why space settlements aren't coming soon. When you purchase through ...

ITHACA, N.Y. — It has been an amazing mission from the beginning. Getting two tremendously intricate machines funded, designed, built, tested, approved, launched, landed safely on a planet millions of ...

Roman Mars has made a career out of noticing things other people might not. On his podcast, "99% Invisible," he investigates the bits of design that are all around us if we take the time to look. Take ...

For lovers of superlatives, the Atacama Desert is a destination worth noting: Stretching north to south for more than 1,000 miles west of the Andes in Chile, it is the driest nonpolar desert in the ...

The Huffington Post, which is never quite so happy as when it’s hyperventilating, went big with a story today about a pending December announcement from the Curiosity Mars rover’s science team. “This ...