Mars just threw us another curveball. NASA’s Perseverance rover recently uncovered a surprising rock formation. On the lower ...

Learn how scientists have made groundbreaking discoveries about water on Mars, indicating the potential for much more recent ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins of life in our universe—if we can get them back to Earth.

The European Space Agency just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic terrain of the Red Planet's Acheron Fossae region.

The dust devil was about 210 feet wide, NASA said, but likely didn't last long after consuming the smaller whirlwind.

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the ...

Seismic data from NASA’s InSight lander suggests liquid water may exist beneath Mars’ surface, supporting the potential for microbial life underground. Are subterranean lifeforms possible on Mars? A n ...

Not all of it. Earlier this year, US president Donald Trump promised Congress that he would “lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond”. He’s wrong, ...

Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The ultimate goal of these ...

In an experiment simulating harsh Martian conditions, including X-ray radiation, scientists discovered that certain lichens ...

“Our study is the first to demonstrate that the metabolism of the fungal partner in lichen symbiosis remained active while being in an environment resembling the surface of Mars,” Kaja Skubała, lead ...