As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National ...

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 ...

Mars continues to astonish scientists with a new set of images that reveal the Red Planet’s atmosphere in unprecedented ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover will go dark for a few weeks due to a conjunction between Earth and Mars, blocking communication between the two planets.

Research conducted by two physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US reveals that ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

Primitive plants could survive and the sunlight that hits them, while weaker than on Earth, is enough for photosynthesis.

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 ...

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...