A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold and icy. The result has implications for the idea that ...

A Ph.D. student and his supervisor have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using equipment already on the Mars Curiosity rover and planned for future use on the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

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Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies go beneath the surface: They explore the interior of the red planet using seismic data from NASA's InSight mission ...

The CEO is interested in bringing back rock samples collected by the agency's Perseverance rover from the red planet after some of the samples collected by the rover contained mineral textures that ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges, which sound ...