NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

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

Mars is no longer just a blank red canvas for planetary scientists. A new generation of high resolution maps is turning the ...

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

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

Scientists have identified a promising site on Mars that could serve as the first foothold for human explorers, a pivotal ...

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

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

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

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 clocks on Mars tick 477-millionths of a second (or 477 microseconds) faster ...