NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

Space agencies are now focusing on menstrual care for astronauts. Longer missions to the Moon and Mars require sustainable ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Red Planet life, according ...

Landing on Mars is a nightmare — the air is too thin for parachutes alone, the ground is a field of jagged rocks, and the ...

Bizarre 'bleached' rocks on the surface of Mars suggest that the Red Planet was once a tropical oasis, a new study reveals.

A NASA rover that launched from Florida detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on Mars' ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

A new report published Tuesday, titled “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” represents the answer from ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

NASA funds new software to enhance drone navigation over featureless Martian terrain. This initiative supports autonomous ...

See the 2,500 mile-long (4000 km) Valles Marineris in imagery captured the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Global topography: ...