In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its ...

For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

NASA’s veteran Mars orbiter MAVEN has fallen ominously silent, cutting off a decade-long stream of atmospheric data that reshaped how scientists think about the red planet’s past. After weeks without ...

U.S. plans to return Mars samples face delays as China advances its own mission. Scientists and policymakers debate costs, timelines, and the role of sample return in future Mars exploration ...

On January 3, 2004, NASA’s Spirit rover successfully completed a major step in space exploration history, touching down on ...

NASA announced it found promising potential biosignatures on Mars. Potential biosignatures are things like chemicals and structures that could be a result of life on the planet, but more research was ...

An ultraviolet view of Mars captured by NASA’s Maven spacecraft in July 2022. Credit: NASA/LASP/CU Boulder NASA is assessing a troubling loss of signal from a Mars orbiter that has spent the last 11 ...

"There is a lot to keep us busy." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...

Blue Origin will offer a variant of its Blue Ring in-space platform to serve as a Mars telecommunications orbiter for NASA. In response to a July 7 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) from NASA, Blue ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...