Mars may be tens of millions of kilometers away, but for planetary scientists, the most revealing rehearsal space sits in the ...

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes.

Mars continues to astonish scientists with a new set of images that reveal the Red Planet’s atmosphere in unprecedented ...

For centuries – maybe millennia – humans have wondered how Mars gets its red hue, but a recent study has some answers.

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 ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly more than that for our moon, posing potential challenges for future crewed ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover will go dark for a few weeks due to a conjunction between Earth and Mars, blocking communication between the two planets.

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Sometimes Mars feels like the setting for a Dr. Seuss book, full of ...

In the new research, Goudz and his team combined decades of data from Mars orbiters with ancient maps of valleys, lake beds, ...

Mars' current environment is extremely hostile, characterized by a thin atmosphere, extremely low temperatures (-60°C on average), and the instability of liquid water on the surface. Evidence from ...