“The closer it is to the sun, the more a planet becomes dominated by the sun’s gravity,” Kane said. “Because Mars is farther ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has been roaming the Red Planet since 2012, taking thousands of pictures, drilling small holes in the planet's surface and searching for evidence of past habitable environments ...

A pull in the right direction ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if Mars weren't there?" ...

Earth’s climate is not only shaped by smokestacks, forests, and oceans. It is also quietly tuned by the slow choreography of the planets, with Mars acting as a distant partner that nudges our world’s ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.