It is 2025, and we are making the necessary steps to colonize Mars. That is the set-up to Red Planet, a sci-fi movie that is now 25 years old and manages to feel lightly optimistic, despite being ...

As a contributor to the documentary Blue Planet Red, I would like to address the criticism in Simon Ings’s review that xenon-129’s presence in the Martian atmosphere implies ancient nuclear conflict ...

So, Mars does have storms, but they’re far drier and dustier than the thunderstorms on Earth. Scientists are continually ...