(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Matthew Shindell, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) Living in today’s age of ...

The three astronauts on the mission to be the first humans on Mars don’t even get to the surface before the trouble starts. They enter the Martian atmosphere wrong, half crash-land in a spot not quite ...

If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of people who follows the Mars rover Curiosity on Twitter, you know that the robot has a big personality that matches her massive size and capabilities.