On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

New research might finally help us understand what happened to the water on Mars and rewrite everything we know about the Red ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

Mars, often imagined as a lifeless desert battered by radiation and cold, holds within its crust the haunting memory of a once vibrant world. Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was nothing like we ...

For years, scientists believed that Mars was a dry and barren world. However, recent research has revealed something incredible: evidence of ancient oceans, rivers, and lakes that once flowed across ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano.

Since the 1960s, humans have set out to discover what Mars can teach us about how planets grow and evolve, and whether it has ever hosted alien life. So far, only uncrewed spacecraft have made the ...

A global analysis deep in soil found 20% of plants studied have an unexpected deeper set of roots more than 3 feet underground.