It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...

The earth (and humanity) would be very different without our smaller red neighbor. In A Nutshell Computer simulations show ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return program faces opposition from planetary scientists following proposed cancellation, with concerns raised over Perseverance samples, future Mars missions, and international ...

Researchers discovered Mars subtly affects Earth’s orbit and axial tilt. These small changes help trigger ice ages and ...

Boffins from the University of Bern used high-resolution images captured from camera orbiting Mars showed geomorphological ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

A new report lays out the objectives for a crewed mission to Mars. Plus, an update on the NASA mission to survey the asteroid ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...