Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any ...

The Curiosity rover has entered its teenage years and achieved higher levels of efficiency. Ever since its landing on Mars on ...

The United States is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the ...

On Aug. 4, 2007, NASA launched its Phoenix Mars Lander on a mission to touch down on Mars. The robotic spacecraft was ...

Lower launch costs have made a Mars mission feasible—but political infighting now threatens SpaceX’s critical role. In a ...

"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...

New research suggests ancient Red Planet precipitation was a lot like Earth It's hard to figure out if Mars was “warm and wet” in its ancient past, but climate models give us clues ...

People are looking forward to witnessing the first footsteps on the moon in over 50 years and the first ones on Mars ever.

The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.

But new analysis of spacecraft observations along with laboratory techniques suggests Mars’ red color is better matched by iron oxides containing water, known as ferrihydrite. Ferrihydrite ...