But there is good news coming from the small Mars rover Curiosity. A new study using imagery from the rover shows evidence ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.

Scientists confirm the existence of liquid water on Mars, altering our understanding of the Red Planet. Evidence of wave ...

The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The planet is the seventh largest and is currently inhabited solely by robots. However, the space agency is working hard to ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for ...