A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

Recently, NASA revealed exciting details of new findings from Mars. Scientists have discovered tiny patterns of unusual minerals in the clay-rich rocks on the edge of Jezero Crater—an ancient lake ...

Experiments show that biomolecules trapped in pure ice could withstand the harsh radiation of Mars for tens of millions of years. If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen ...

NASA's Viking landers were the first spacecraft to successfully touch down on the surface of Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP Finding life beyond the Earth would be a major scientific discovery with ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...

"This is the moment where the metal detector has gone off and you've dug up something shiny. You still need to find out exactly what you've got — but you've got something to work with." Mars hasn't ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — If scientists can prove evidence of life on Mars — now or at any point in the past — “that ...

We have to study the past to prepare for our future. By examining campaigns for peace by opposing American wars we are provided with lessons from which we can learn and take courage. In March,1967 a ...

Last month, NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered the “clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars,” according to acting NASA administrator Sean P. Duffy. While traveling across the rugged ...

Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic red dust, ...

A planetary geologist at the University of Iowa is part of an elite NASA team pouring over data being relayed from the Perseverance Mars Rover, which has discovered some of the clearest signs yet of ...