The discovery of a vast, fresh impact scar on Mars began with what looked like a smudge in a routine weather snapshot. A ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.

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.

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

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

Research conducted by two physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US reveals that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...