Mars is rich in ice, both on and under its surface—with more predicted to lie farther below its dusty exterior. If future ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

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

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National ...

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

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) officially went into service above the Red Planet in November 2006. The spacecraft ...

Leading US scientists and engineers have published a 200-page report, "A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars," ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

After nearly five years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover's durability and gathering new science ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly ...

Building a city on Mars using ice might sound far-fetched, but new research published at the American Geophysical Union’s ...

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things — and it does them, in the immortal words of President Kennedy, because they are hard. NASA’s most ambitious planetary project yet is Mars Sample ...