New simulations show Mars plays a key role in shaping Earth’s long-term climate by influencing its orbit and axial tilt over hundreds of thousands to millions of years.

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open ...

Mars 3 holds a strange place in space history: it was the first spacecraft to soft-land on Mars, yet its triumph lasted just ...

The UA-run Phoenix Mars lander scraped the surface of our planetary neighbor to verify the presence of frozen water on Mars, and now cameras orbiting the red planet have found a meter-thick layer of ...

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese geologists has created a Mars soil simulant that almost replicates Utopia Planitia soil, a scientific breakthrough that could be crucial for future explorations of the ...

Anthony Alfredo will move to Viking Motorsports’ newly formed two-car effort in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series in 2026, the team announced Dec. 4. Alfredo will drive the No. 96 as a teammate to ...

A new analysis of data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the majority of the Red Planet's dark "slope streaks" did not form as most researchers previously assumed. When you purchase ...

Acting NASA chief Sean Duffy surprised many people earlier this week when he said the space agency was intending to reopen the contracts for the Artemis III lunar lander that will return astronauts to ...

NASA's Artemis III mission has a big problem. Currently slated for 2027, there's a lot of anxiety about whether the Starship lander that is supposed to take astronauts to the lunar surface just won't ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joel S. Levine, William & Mary (THE CONVERSATION) Finding life beyond the Earth would ...