That does not mean that the detected alkanes are evidence of life on Mars; the conclusion relies on modeling how radiation ...

NASA has plans to send astronauts to Mars surprisingly soon, but their exact timeline is still rather vague for a number of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered ...

NASA’s long-promised journey to Mars has often sounded like a hazy promise, safely parked in the “sometime in the 2030s” bucket. Yet the pieces now sliding into place, from lunar test flights to ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Elon Musk’s ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat for a rather nearer and more achievable goal – ...

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SpaceX is putting its longstanding focus of sending humans to Mars on the back burner to prioritize establishing a settlement ...

Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold and said his SpaceX rocket company will instead focus on building a city on the moon.

Two new satellite missions will help NASA scientists better understand Earth and improve the ability to foresee environmental ...

In a new study, researchers say that nonbiological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of ...