Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing.

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

On a battered rock in an ancient Martian riverbed, a pattern of dark, rounded patches has jolted planetary science. These ...

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

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

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

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

Scientists have identified eight mysterious water-shaped caves on Mars, unlike volcanic tunnels, raising fresh hopes these ...

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

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

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 ...