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

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

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 ...

Researchers show algae can grow in Mars-like atmospheric pressure conditions. If humans are ever to establish permanent ...

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 ...

A trip to Mars takes much longer than a trip to space. Most missions to Mars typically take between 6 and 9 months. For example, NASA's Perseverance rover took about 7 months to reach Mars.

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

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.

But it's possible, at least in theory, and the idea of terraforming ... Recent advances in Mars science suggest that the planet's vast stores of ice harbor enough water to form an ocean around 1,000 ...

Scientists have had a long-standing theory that Mars used to have surface water. But for that to happen, the planet also would have needed to be warmer, with higher air pressure.

Although the magnetic field of Mars hasn’t been in effect for billions of years, the evidence it left behind may suggest that the planet’s core is entirely liquid. Magnetic imprints still exist on ...