ESA’s Mars Express has returned new views of pedestal craters in the Red Planet’s eastern Arabia Terra.

By Carolyn Churchill IT is the holy grail of space exploration.

By Marcia Dunn CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When NASA's

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- When NASA's newest Mars lander departs Earth this weekend, it will be carrying the words and art of visionaries from Voltaire to Carl Sagan.

By DANA WILDE The bright, ginger-colored star in the evening sky in recent weeks is not a star at all - it's Mars. We're humming past it roughly 43 million miles away, in one of the close encounters that occur every 2 1/4 years.