From Calle’s habitat, known as MDRS, the cotton candy sky against the red rocks of the Western United States “felt like Mars, ...

Image Credit: Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Martian (Image: Universal Pictures, Amazon MGM and 20th Century Fox ...

This galvanizing, can-do ethos set the tone for a generation of space exploration that seeps into pop culture to this day. Except it’s all grown more complicated. For one, the moon is now old hat.

Decades after being sealed away, Apollo-era lunar samples are revealing unexpected chemical signatures that challenge ...