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

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

Turning Martian dust into shelter has long sounded like science fiction, but researchers are now treating it as an ...

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

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

NASA’s ultimate mission to discover if life exists on Mars has been effectively cancelled. A new US spending bill released ...

If ancient Martian lakes persisted under seasonal ice rather than thick permanent ice, features on Mars that have been ...

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

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

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

For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

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 ...