NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been flying our the red planet for the last 20 years, beaming back images of its surface captured by its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE ...

ESA images show a large meteoroid strike on Apollinaris Mons, leaving more than 100 mysterious moving dust marks on Mars.

A single metallic boulder sitting in an ancient Martian riverbed is forcing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about the Red Planet. The rock, an apparent interplanetary visitor, is not ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/ESA, J. Bell (Cornell U.) and M. Wolff (SSI) Have you noticed Mars has been getting ...

For centuries – maybe millennia – humans have wondered how Mars gets its red hue, but a recent study has some answers.

When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But surprisingly, Venus might actually be a better candidate for human ...

It's clear that Mars once gushed with water. Today, aerial views of the Red Planet's Jezero crater (shown below) reveal that water once poured into this basin, leaving behind telltale signs of rivers, ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...