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

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

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

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

Mars is half the size of Earth and has only a tenth of its mass, but a new study shows that even such a "lightweight" planet ...

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

Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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