Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could ...

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

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...

Using images from cameras on Mars orbiters, an international research team has discovered structures on Mars that are very ...

A nuclear thermal propulsion engine could cut the travel time in half for future space explorers racing to the Red Planet.

NASA canceled its plan to bring samples of rock from Mars back to Earth. The Perseverance rover has been traversing the ...

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

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

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

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Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, ...