A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

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

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

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

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

The research has implications for NASA’s goals to build a base on the moon and eventually conduct crewed missions to Mars.

For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

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

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

NASA’s ultimate mission to discover if life exists on Mars has been effectively cancelled. A new US spending bill released ...

NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...