Led by the University of Bern, the study involved investing Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system on Mars.

Long thought of as a dry, barren world, Mars may once have shimmered with shades of blue. A new study reveals the discovery ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

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

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

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return program faces opposition from planetary scientists following proposed cancellation, with concerns raised over Perseverance samples, future Mars missions, and international ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

A new report lays out the objectives for a crewed mission to Mars. Plus, an update on the NASA mission to survey the asteroid ...

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

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 ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...