Despite being one of the most promising places to explore for signs of life, "special regions" and "uncertain regions" may be ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, has long been a focal point of fascination for scientists and space enthusiasts alike.

The largest-known piece of Mars ever found on Earth is going up for auction on Wednesday and could fetch as much as $4 million because of the rareness of an extraterrestrial item. Sotheby’s auction ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid.

A NASA rover has recorded evidence of lightning on Mars for the first time, its microphone picking up the sounds of tiny ...

Scientists with NASA have lost contact with a spacecraft that’s investigated Mars’ upper atmosphere for the past decade. The ...

Japan is putting its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft through a series of tests ahead of its launch to Mars next year. MMX is a complex mission to collect samples from the moon Phobos and ...

After placing an ancient extreme Earth organism outside of the ISS for nine months, scientists were shocked to find it was ...