It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...

Long thought of as a dry, barren world, Mars may once have shimmered with shades of blue. A new study reveals the discovery ...

Led by the University of Bern, the study involved investing Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system on Mars.

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

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

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Researchers discovered Mars subtly affects Earth’s orbit and axial tilt. These small changes help trigger ice ages and ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return program faces opposition from planetary scientists following proposed cancellation, with concerns raised over Perseverance samples, future Mars missions, and international ...

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

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

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...