It’s been 6 years since the hacker’s treat of a book, “The Martian” by Andy Weir ... he has a habitat designed for six, called the Hab, two rovers, the Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) they ...

Just how scientifically accurate is Ridley Scott's adaptation of The Martian? As it turns out, it's pretty darn accurate!

The other is that a massive collision with a moon-size object or multiple smaller space rocks reshaped the planet's surface. However, the ages of the rocks on the Martian surface hint that ...

SCIENCE FICTION: With only limited food, Mark Watney in "The Martian ... in the Hab to generate breathable oxygen out of carbon dioxide. SCIENCE FACT: On the International Space Station, the ...

It was a gut punch. The New York Times declared Mars a dead planet. “The fanciful Martian megafauna,” John Updike wrote many years later for this magazine, “were swept into oblivion.” ...

Hope probe captured high-resolution image of Mars' moon Deimos. The spacecraft flew "as close as 100km (62 miles)" from the ...

Thawing the Pole The Martian South pole has a coating of dry ice (which is frozen carbon dioxide), covering frozen water. As the dry ice melts, carbon dioxide could be released into the atmosphere ...

The formations, which span an area as large as Texas, can be seen in images taken by NASA and European Space Agency orbiters ... area of 145 square miles, the Martian mounds reach 1,800 feet ...

Stranded on Mars, Watney had no technology to communicate with the crew in space ... the Martian environment surrounding the lander's final resting place. After Watney returns to the hab and ...

In this video, delicate red-and-green-tinted clouds are seen drifting through the Martian sky in striking ... an atmospheric scientist at the Space Science Institute in Colorado, who led a paper ...