Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is investigating strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars that may reveal a hidden chapter of the planet’s watery history. These “boxwork” formations likely formed when groundwater ...

NASA launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in August 2005 and the following year, on March 10, it entered the orbit of the ...

A party hat-shaped object spotted on Mars is drawing renewed scrutiny, with some experts suggesting it could be evidence of ...

An accident on Mars revealed the surprising contents of an otherwise unremarkable rock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A rock on ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good idea of where to look.

NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget ...

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

NASA has given its Perseverance Mars rover a powerful new ability to determine its exact location on the Red Planet without ...

For any future human survival on Mars, scientists have identified several primary sites. One of the vital sites is the ...

While sifting through the extensive data collected by NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft over the last decade, scientists discovered a familiar type of electromagnetic ...