As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

Mars' abundant ice offers a revolutionary solution for future human settlements. Scientists propose using this frozen water ...

Research conducted by two physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US reveals that ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

The sudden silence of a veteran Mars spacecraft has turned a routine comet flyby into one of the most intriguing space ...

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National ...

Mars is rich in ice, both on and under its surface—with more predicted to lie farther below its dusty exterior. If future ...

NASA loses contact with MAVEN, its Mars orbiter studying the planet's atmosphere, after a decade of successful operations.

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

After nearly five years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover's durability and gathering new science ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly ...

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 ...