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 ...

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 ...

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

Earth's shadow follows the planet as it orbits the sun. You can get a sense of its enormous, awe-inspiring size by seeing ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

But Mars Express belongs in the same breath as those films, not because it vibes hard with them, but because it delivers something startlingly novel and fully realized that every sci-fi work should be ...

Searching for past or present life on Mars is the sole driving force behind every mission we send to the red planet, from orbiters to landers to rovers. However, there remains a concern in the ...

“For All Mankind” is finally making its Season 5 splashdown — with new star Mireille Enos, who joins the cast this season as a member of the Mars peacekeeper security force. The addition reunite Enos ...

I’ve read that the planned crewed Mars missions will take six months or two years to arrive. Which is it? Could a longer trip be due to the heavy payload? Our rovers took only eight to nine months to ...

Compared with Earth, Mars is tiny, yet it seems to have an outsized effect on our planet’s climate cycles. Similar small planets could affect the climates of worlds beyond our solar system, which we ...

For anyone curious about what it's like to stand on another planet, Earth offers a few convincing previews. Mars may be 140 million miles away, but scientists and movie directors have been finding its ...