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

Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Red Planet life, according ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

The next step in space exploration isn't generations away. It's happening right now. And our destination? That mysterious, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

Scientists have long been interested in the caves of Mars — not just because they could provide a home for future human explorers, but also because they just might harbor evidence of life on the Red ...

Skylights, openings in the surface of Mars that descend down into caves, have been found on Mars, along with signatures for the presence of water ice. Possible giant "karstic" caves that formed when ...

NASA’s Johnson Space Center reminded everyone on Monday that its four volunteers have been inside its Mars simulation habitat for a whole month now, though they still have 344 days to go before they ...

NATIONWIDE — NASA announced on Wednesday that its Perseverance Mars rover may have found signs of ancient microbial life on the red planet. During a teleconference on Wednesday morning, acting NASA ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...

Like an interstellar rolling stone. NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to potentially interstellar origins. “This rock ...