As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars ...

Leading US scientists and engineers have published a 200-page report, "A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars," ...

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.

Even worse, the orbit of Mars is elliptical (think of a slight oval rather than a perfect circle), which means that sometimes ...

"The detection of life on Mars is a persistent top priority for explorers of many disciplines, and it is the top science ...

NASA is probing a sudden loss of contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter after rare 3I/ATLAS data, raising questions about timing ...

Curiosity has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2011, but what it found inside a rock last year has changed our ...

Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times ...

One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to ...