NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a ...

Recently released images from two orbiters have revealed carbon dioxide ice and dark dust patterns stretching across the ...

An unusual new rock collection discovered by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover suggests the Red Planet's ancient past was wet ...

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

There might be a hidden ocean's worth of liquid water below the surface of Mars, seismic evidence suggests. According to a new paper published April 25 in the journal National Science Review, ...

MAVEN has circled Mars for more than a decade, exploring the planet and relaying data from robots on the surface.

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on ...

Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6.

A new report published Tuesday, titled “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” represents the answer from ...

"The detection of life on Mars is a persistent top priority for explorers of many disciplines, and it is the top science ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...