NASA’s Curiosity rover is skygazing and photographing lovely examples of noctilucent clouds on Mars. The wispy formations ...

The ground on Mars is full of nitrogen, a vital component for planet life, raising hopes that it might be more hospitable ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

Steeped in the United States' space race with the Soviet Union, the pursuit of a deeper understanding of Mars' resources and its viability as a place to one day send humans has compelled us to ...

For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the Moon through the Artemis Program.

Ever since the discovery of methane on Mars, scientists have wondered if the Red Planet might harbor life. Now, researchers ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said that he plans to send spacecraft to Mars in about two years and man missions afterward if he ...

Mars' close approach of Earth also coincides with its opposition on Jan. 16, when the Red Planet is located almost exactly opposite the sun in the sky with Earth in the middle. Breaking space news ...

Dozens of samples collected from missions on Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned as ...

Over the past 60 years or so of space exploration, humans have left some things behind ... like not landing exactly on Tranquility Base or where Curiosity Rover has driven around on Mars. But when it ...