In a quiet riverbed carved into the Martian surface, a patch of layered stone may hold a clue to one of science’s most ...

Scientists preparing for humanity’s first mission to Mars say the search for life must be the top priority. Backed by major ...

W hile the northern hemisphere of Earth makes its way through winter, the southern hemisphere of Mars is reaching the end of ...

Scientists have identified eight mysterious water-shaped caves on Mars, unlike volcanic tunnels, raising fresh hopes these ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

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

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

For centuries – maybe millennia – humans have wondered how Mars gets its red hue, but a recent study has some answers.

Mars often feels finished. Mapped, scanned, labelled in broad strokes. Yet every so often, something unsettles that sense of ...

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things — and it does them, in the immortal words of President Kennedy, because they are hard. NASA’s most ambitious planetary project yet is Mars Sample ...

Research conducted by two physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US reveals that ...