Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

After a daredevil landing on Mars this week, NASA's new rover Curiosity is gearing up for the long haul on the Red Planet. But the rover still has time to star in a new National Geographic documentary ...

Recently, ESA’s Mars Express delivered photos of the famous ‘Face on Mars’ in the Cydonia region. The High Resolution Stereo Camera images are some of the most spectacular views of the Red Planet ever ...

When chronicling the legacy of Nikki Giovanni, you can’t deliver a traditional documentary. HBO’s new film “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” is anything but traditional. Filmmakers Joe ...

“Maybe there’ll be a movie!” It’s been the rallying cry of many a disappointed fan of a prematurely dead TV series. Deadwood fans have carried the hope of a wrap-up movie ever since the HBO Western ...

The car-sized rover Curiosity had a clean landing on Mars five months ago. But planetary missions didn’t always run so smoothly at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mariner 3, a probe sent to do a ...

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 ...