A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

A team of Chinese researchers has identified eight caves in Mars’ Hebrus Valles that may have been sculpted by water. These ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded sounds from Mars dust devils and revealed tiny electric sparks shaping the planet’s ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

Mars just scored another point in favor of alien life. Scientists discovered signs of an ocean's worth of liquid water miles below Mars' surface. The findings, based on Marsquake measurements by ...

For years, scientists have been intrigued by mysterious dark streaks running down the slopes of Martian cliffs and craters. These marks, called slope streaks and recurring slope lineae (RSLs), have ...

Illustration of the planet Mars covered in water in the past, when its atmosphere was thicker and warmer. Now scientists may have found an unground reservoir. Is there water on Mars? Scientists using ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

Mars lacks both a global magnetic field and a thick atmosphere, leaving its surface exposed to constant bombardment from ...

Research conducted by two physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US reveals that ...

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, ...