The discovery suggests that parts of Mars may once have supported tropical-like climates, complete with heavy, sustained rainfall.

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

Far away on desolate Mars, a set of dust and rock samples awaits a ride that might never come. After years in limbo, NASA’s groundbreaking Mars Sample Return (MSR) programme, which was supposed to ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping construction materials from Earth, researchers are exploring how to use ...

Advances in synthetic biology, planetary engineering, and ultra-low-cost launch systems have dramatically altered how researchers view Mars terraforming. Once seen as an impossible sci-fi fantasy, ...

The members of Crew-11 — two American, one Russian and one Japanese — splashed down after one became ill, prompting an early return.

Data collected by China’s Zhurong rover has provided new evidence that Mars may once have hosted large oceans. Subsurface ...

The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, which brought 92 people on trips to the edge of space, will cease flying for at ...

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

A team of researchers at the University of Southern Queensland has discovered a potentially habitable planet 150 light-years ...