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 long been cast as a frozen desert, but fresh data from China’s Zhurong rover are forcing scientists to picture ...

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

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

If ancient Martian lakes persisted under seasonal ice rather than thick permanent ice, features on Mars that have been ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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