NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

Giant, dense structures have been discovered beneath the surface of Mars and they are leaving experts both mystified and excited. The first of these, confirmed by researchers in a fascinating paper, ...

Forget the dusty, rusty landscape you see today. Billions of years ago, Mars may have been soaking wet. Tropical storms might ...

A new report published Tuesday, titled “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” represents the answer from ...

Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Red Planet life, according ...

Near-surface water ice could supply essential resources for future human exploration on the Red Planet. Before sending people ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

NASA funds new software to enhance drone navigation over featureless Martian terrain. This initiative supports autonomous ...

This temporal lag is a direct consequence of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. The rule is simple: the weaker ...

New research reveals that ancient Mars once hosted vast river drainage systems comparable in scale to some of Earth’s major ...

Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...