We have gazed upon the Moon with wonder since the dawn of humanity, and named its craters as seas, but could those become ...

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...

We believe Mars may once have had oceans and sky, but lost them from a lack of a magnetosphere. How does this happen, and how can we create a magnetosphere for Mars so we can terraform and live on it?

NASA is also working to evolve key technologies that will enable low-cost exploration missions to Mars and throughout the solar system. This includes what is considered to be the most important ...

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red Planet from space. Scientists say the discovery of siderite, a type of ...

A chapter of the layered geological history of Mars is laid bare in this image from NASA's Curiosity rover. The image shows the base of Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual science destination.

On Mars, which has a thin atmosphere (less than 1% of Earth's) and no ozone layer, about 30% more damaging UV radiation reaches the surface. However, numerical modeling predicts ice and snow ...

This unexpected discovery suggests that Mars may have once possessed the chemical building blocks necessary for life. The finding, made using a new heating method on a previously studied sample ...

NASA’s Mars rover has spotted something out of this world — a mysterious, skull-shaped elevation – sitting on a slope where star-gazers say it doesn’t belong. The mysterious rock – dubbe ...

The 'Mercury Seven': The emotional anniversary of the first Americans chosen by NASA to fly into space NASA's Mars rover spotted something extraordinary: a mysterious skull-shaped bulge ...

On April 20, the sun will square Mars, bringing two powerhouse energies together that are anything but subtle. The grounded, stubborn and stability-seeking Taurus sun will go head-to-head with the ...