With its pointed peak and wide brim, it looks like nothing discovered on Mars before. In fact, this Martian rock, newly spotted by NASA's Perseverance rover, is leaving people baffled with its ...

A mission to Mars may sound like humanity’s next giant leap, but the truth could be far stranger. What if the first “humans” on Mars aren’t human at all — and what if the signs of that future have ...

In 1906, the New York Times ran the headline, “There is life on the planet Mars.” It was based on the work of Percival Lowell, a professor who was convinced Mars contained a series of irrigation ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and steered by scientists at Penn State lays out ...