Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Scientists have known that Mars is rich in strange chemicals, especially chlorine-based compounds found by orbiters, rovers, ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too ...

SpaceX's mission remains focused on establishing a city on one of Earth's nearest neighboring planets. Musk's Starship will ...

Mars, now a dusty world of rusted rock and thin air, once carried enough water to transform its face into something far more ...

A recent photo from NASA's Curiosity rover gives an idea of what Mars would look like under skies that resemble our own on Earth. Take a look.

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less than a meter beneath the surface, close enough to be harvested for water, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has added to its trove of curious finds, as the space agency published a photo of a rock on the surface of Mars that looks like a centuries-old helmet. The rock has a pointed ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...