NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars since 2014, went quiet abruptly in early December. Efforts to reestablish a ...

Mars 3 holds a strange place in space history: it was the first spacecraft to soft-land on Mars, yet its triumph lasted just ...

Mars often feels finished. Mapped, scanned, labelled in broad strokes. Yet every so often, something unsettles that sense of ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded sounds from Mars dust devils and revealed tiny electric sparks shaping the planet’s ...

Experiments show that lightning strikes can trigger the synthesis of basic organic molecules needed by living organisms.

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

HE WAS the child genius who claimed to be the reincarnation of a Martian, shocking the world with tales of spaceships, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover releases a new Mars panorama from Gale Crater ahead of solar conjunction, showing the Nevado Sajama drill site and recent geology and atmosphere studies.

On some Mars images, Olympus Mons does not look dramatic at first glance. It sits there quietly, a wide pale rise against ...