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

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

"The detection of life on Mars is a persistent top priority for explorers of many disciplines, and it is the top science ...

A Mars rover has discovered strange, bleached rocks that suggest Mars may have once been wet and warm. Researchers at Purdue ...

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 ...

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

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

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