"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure ...

UCF Professor Ramses Ramirez believes human exploration can greatly accelerate the search for life. "A human can react ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

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China aims to launch the Tianwen-3 Mars mission by 2028, with sample return targeted for 2031, according to chief scientist ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

The images and data being collected are already raising new questions about how the Martian surface was changing billions of ...

Scientists have created living communities of bacteria and fungi that could survive in protective habitats on the Red Planet.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to send a cargo ship to Mars by the end of next year. Here’s why that plan likely won’t pan out.

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NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped its first images of web-like "boxwork" features on the surface of Mars. The zig-zagging ...