Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, ...

A new report lays out the objectives for a crewed mission to Mars. Plus, an update on the NASA mission to survey the asteroid ...

NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

W hile the northern hemisphere of Earth makes its way through winter, the southern hemisphere of Mars is reaching the end of ...

For centuries – maybe millennia – humans have wondered how Mars gets its red hue, but a recent study has some answers.

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things — and it does them, in the immortal words of President Kennedy, because they are hard. NASA’s most ambitious planetary project yet is Mars Sample ...