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

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

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 ...

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

Illustration of the planet Mars covered in water in the past, when its atmosphere was thicker and warmer. Now scientists may have found an unground reservoir. Is there water on Mars? Scientists using ...

A single metallic boulder sitting in an ancient Martian riverbed is forcing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about the Red Planet. The rock, an apparent interplanetary visitor, is not ...

Mars is a fascinating planet in our solar system. Over the years, space organizations have done a great deal of work to further explore Mars, including projects to get crews to the red planet. Mars ...

ESA images show a large meteoroid strike on Apollinaris Mons, leaving more than 100 mysterious moving dust marks on Mars.

Mars has long served as inspiration to many a science fiction writer in search of a home planet for their imagined extraterrestrials. But could the terrestrial red planet ever have actually been home ...

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, ...

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, and covered a greater portion of the planet’s surface than the Atlantic Ocean does on Earth, according to new results published ...

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