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 ...
A new climate model suggests that ancient lakes on Mars may have survived for decades beneath thin layers of ice that formed ...
Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

An Act of Cosmic Sabotage

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...
China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, has provided groundbreaking insights into the history of water on Mars, showing that ...
Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, ...
This composite image was weeks in the making, as Horálek’s two "crossings" happened months apart. Mars traced its path ...
NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.
NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new "postcard" from high on the slopes of the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, ...
A new report lays out the objectives for a crewed mission to Mars. Plus, an update on the NASA mission to survey the asteroid ...
NASA Curiosity rover, which launched from Florida in 2011, captured panoramic image of Mars that resembles a sunset on Earth.