NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

The Spirit rover landed on Mars on Jan. 4, 2004. Like its twin, Opportunity, Spirit was assigned an initial mission of only ...

Scientists preparing for humanity’s first mission to Mars say the search for life must be the top priority. Backed by major ...

W hile the northern hemisphere of Earth makes its way through winter, the southern hemisphere of Mars is reaching the end of ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things — and it does them, in the immortal words of President Kennedy, because they are hard. NASA’s most ambitious planetary project yet is Mars Sample ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

Scientists have identified eight mysterious water-shaped caves on Mars, unlike volcanic tunnels, raising fresh hopes these ...

Research conducted by two physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US reveals that clocks on Mars tick 477-millionths of a second (or 477 microseconds) faster ...