Mars may have once possessed an ocean at least as large as Earth's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. Previous research ...

A rover recently captured sounds of lightning crackling on Mars, over a decade after scientists uncovered the first evidence ...

Recent discoveries have revealed that Mars’ core may be heating up unexpectedly, challenging long-held assumptions about the Red Planet’s geology. As scientists delve into the data collected from ...

Perseverance is exploring Mars’ sandy ripples, strange frozen waves that could reveal how wind still shapes the planet. Along the way it uncovered unusual helmet-shaped rocks, sparking new questions ...

For more than a century, astronomers debated the possibility of martian canali (channels) which Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed to see on the Red Planet in 1877. Mistranslated into ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN ...

Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a dramatic rise in ozone. Scientists found that the lack of sunlight and moisture ...

Musk wants to send the first uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026, followed by human spaceflights in the years after. The first humans on Mars would be tasked with laying the groundwork to ...

NASA’s interim administrator, Sean Duffy, was fired up on Wednesday when he joined a teleconference to talk about new scientific findings that concerned the potential for life to have once existed on ...

Long before Orson Welles provoked a panic with his 1938 radio broadcast of a Martian invasion in War of the Worlds, we were fascinated with the possibility of life on the Red Planet. We may be a step ...

New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...