The strongest hints yet that Mars once hosted living microbes are no longer theoretical models or ambiguous chemistry. They ...

For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling everything from Earth and the difficulty of building safe shelters on a hostile ...

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...

Perseverance, the aptly named robot that has been criss-crossing the planet Mars since February 2021, has collected numerous samples along its 30 km route. Assigned to explore an ancient river delta ...

Like an interstellar rolling stone. NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to potentially interstellar origins. “This rock ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars’ atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...