Curiosity has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2011, but what it found inside a rock last year has changed our ...

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

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

The Red Planet shows its true colors.

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's orbit and axial tilt.

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ...

Mars' craters come from ancient collisions during the formation of the solar system. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Arizona State University via AP NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round ...

Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like surface features left behind by ancient water on the Red Planet. The ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study ...

BOSTON - The highlight of the week is coming tonight in the night sky - the lunar occultation of Mars. First off, at 5:27 p.m. the moon will be officially full. The full January moon is known as the ...