In Pasadena, California, in the early summer of 1976, the engineers and scientists of NASA's Viking mission hoped to do something no one had ever done before: land a fully operational spacecraft on ...

Last week NASA released in full its circa-1976 “NASA Graphics Standards Manual” to the public after a demand was raised by a Kickstarter campaign to release it in glorious hardback. The hefty guide ...

Over 40 years ago, a NASA mission may have accidentally destroyed what would have been the first discovery of organic molecules on Mars, according to a report from New Scientist. Scientists didn't ...

We’ve spent decades and billions of dollars to answer one simple question: is there life on Mars? But according to an opinion piece for Scientific American by former NASA scientist Gilbert Levin, we ...