Planetary geologist Amanda Ostwald studies Martian meteorites to understand what makes Mars different from — and similar to — planet Earth Naomi Greenberg In 2023, Dr. Ostwald hiked the entire ring of ...

March Madness is set to get underway this week and as millions of Americans participate in a variety of bracket challenges, one is offering a trip to Mars as the reward for picking a perfect bracket.

Saturn normally takes center stage among the planets. But this summer, Mars is grabbing most of the attention. If you haven't seen it yet, treat yourself. Go out the next clear night and look to the ...

Two weeks from today, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is scheduled to touch down on the red planet. The event is significant in Tucson because the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Lab team is ...

If you want to be one of the first people to step foot on Mars for free, now’s your chance: you just have to be unworldly at predicting basketball games. Elon Musk’s X Bracket Challenge is offering ...

If you have an otherworldly knack for picking the winners of college basketball games, you could get a free ride to Mars on SpaceX's Starship megarocket. That's the grand prize in the "X Bracket ...