Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos. What ...

The fundamental question of why Mars is red has been considered for hundreds if not for thousands of years,” Adam Valantinas, ...

Such major and arbitrary cuts to NASA’s budget would do very little to save money, but they will undercut and decimate one of ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

The idea of an ancient Martian ocean has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, groundbreaking research based on radar scans ...

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"And chemical methods are just a little more transferable to Mars." Sellam's dad, a statistician, ignited in him a curiosity ...

A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Mars' distinctive red color comes from the mineral ... Associate Director for Strategic Science of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland ...

Short deadline for science project submissions suggests Tianwen-3 could be on track to win race to bring samples back to ...