Mars is no longer just a story about a single lost ocean or one fleeting window for biology. Taken together, recent rover ...

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

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been flying our the red planet for the last 20 years, beaming back images of its surface captured by its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE ...

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.

Built to last, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues its long journey across Mars, collecting samples and revealing the ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring the Jezero Crater for years, and it's finally found a potential meteorite, now ...

It's clear that Mars once gushed with water. Today, aerial views of the Red Planet's Jezero crater (shown below) reveal that water once poured into this basin, leaving behind telltale signs of rivers, ...

When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But surprisingly, Venus might actually be a better candidate for human ...