For decades, the search for life on Mars has been a story of hints and maybes, of chemical curiosities that stopped just ...

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

A new study released by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has set the stage for future human ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

New research reveals that ancient Mars once hosted vast river drainage systems comparable in scale to some of Earth’s major ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

The three astronauts on the mission to be the first humans on Mars don’t even get to the surface before the trouble starts. They enter the Martian atmosphere wrong, half crash-land in a spot not quite ...

The Holocaust happened. George Washington was the first president of the United States. Vaccines do not cause autism. Climate change is real. The earth is round. There is no life on the moon. The 2020 ...

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on ...