NASA has plans to send astronauts to Mars surprisingly soon, but their exact timeline is still rather vague for a number of ...

“The presence of liquid water [on Mars] is a broad topic that includes rains, rivers, lakes, as well as oceans,” says Ezat Heydari, a geochemist at Jackson State University who was not involved in the ...

Mars, once a much wetter and more dynamic planet, is now a dry and inhospitable desert. The mystery of how the red planet ...

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

As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned ...

Since humans first started observing Mars, the existence of nocturnal ice clouds on the Red Planet has been known, primarily through daytime observations and sophisticated climate models. Twilight ...

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...

A northern summer dust storm on Mars boosted high-altitude water escape, suggesting short-lived events may play a bigger role ...

The current image of Mars as an arid and hostile desert contrasts sharply with the history revealed by its surface. Channels, ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

The James Webb Space Telescope's main goal is to detect faint light from distant galaxies, but it recently observed one of the brightest objects in the night sky: Mars. The space observatory captured ...

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