A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

What can the climate history of Mars teach scientists about whether the Red Planet once had the ingredients for life as we ...

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above some clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano ...

NASA is preparing for severe cuts under the White House’s proposed budget for 2026. The budget, released in May, highlights ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

NASA's troubled Mars sample-return program may have a new lifeline, in the form of a proposal from private space company Rocket Lab to help save the mission. However, while Perseverance has been ...

The Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, successfully landed on the red planet on August 6, 2012, after nearly a year traveling from Earth. At that time Curiosity began a multi-year mission to explore ...

WELCOME to Mars – where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the Red Planet has the benefit of a 24-hour day – about 37 minut… ...