Mars had an Arctic-sized ocean, and scientists are only now beginning to see the outline of it. For a long time, the planet ...

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

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

The mission is not deemed feasible given the high budget it demands and the uncertainty around its operations.

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

Mars isn’t just dusty—it crackles with electricity. Scientists discovered that dust devils can generate tiny electric sparks, captured for the first time by Perseverance’s microphone. These static ...

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

LIGHTHAVEN, ONE kilometre down Telegraph Avenue from the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is a rambling conference facility which dedicates itself to “hosting events and programmes ...

NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more ...

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

"There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of ...