NASA's Perseverance rover has detected the first aurora at Mars that's visible to the human eye. That's good news for future ...

A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists point the robot’s cameras toward the Red Planet’s sky to spot a feature shared with our Blue Marble.

Sen. John Cornyn introduced the Mission to Modernize Astronautic Resources for Space Act, which would improve and modernize the Johnson Space Center.

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1703: Robinson Crusoe has to leave Scotland for a year, but after months sailing, a storm wrecks his ship. He ends up as only survivor on a desolate island.

As he puts it in his smart and wonderfully readable new book, “More Everything Forever,” life on Mars is bound to be worse than life on our own planet, however much ecological havoc we have ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has stumbled across a rather intriguing rock while driving west downslope towards lower "Witch Hazel Hill" on the edge of the Jezero Crater rim on Mars. Over the last ...

Over the course of many generations, tradition and experimentation in Europe have combined to create a pretty clear idea of which wines pair well with which dishes. These marriages, often local in ...

The latest Comic Artworks Auction on Catawiki curated by Louis Girard includes an original “Robinson Crusoe” artwork by John Worsley, best known to downthetubes readers as the artist on the “The ...

Elon Musk has just declared that there will be one million humans living on Mars by 2045. Perfect timing ... A keen environmentalist and trekker he has published a book on high altitude trekking in ...