Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...

New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally split open a rock on Mars on May 30, 2024, exposing bright yellow crystals that turned out to be pure elemental sulfur, a material never before identified on the ...

An accident on Mars revealed the surprising contents of an otherwise unremarkable rock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A rock on ...

Stephen King may be famous for horror novels, but his TV recommendations reveal a taste for smart, suspenseful, and often ...

Scientists demonstrate that recycled human waste can unlock nutrients in Martian dust, offering a new path for farming on Mars.

A party hat-shaped object spotted on Mars is drawing renewed scrutiny, with some experts suggesting it could be evidence of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – If space flight seems to have lost its luster, jaded Earthlings take note. NASA and its Cleveland contingent are returning to an old haunt with human cargo on board. For the first ...

A seemingly small planetary neighbor may play a larger role in Earth’s climate than previously thought. Mars is only about ...