Mars, long admired for its rusty hue and alien deserts, may play a far greater role in shaping life on Earth than once ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more ...

NASA is spending this week trying to rouse a veteran Mars orbiter that has not answered a single call in more than a month, a ...

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

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 ...

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

Researchers worked out the ocean's size by finding how high the water level got in the Solar System’s largest canyon system.

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