The first astronauts who walk on Mars are now being told to go as planetary detectives, not just pathfinders. A sweeping new ...

In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while ...

New evidence from Martian valley networks confirms a gradual climate shift from warm and wet during the Noachian period, ...

The Pachycephalosaurus skull belonged to a dinosaur with a domed-shaped head that lived around 67 million years ago ...

New experiments reveal jarosite's selective bromine capture under Mars-like conditions, offering a fresh lens to decode the Red Planet's aqueous past ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

The blueprint outlines the equipment, landing-site criteria and environmental constraints that will determine what is ...

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

New experiments reveal jarosite’s selective bromine capture under Mars-like conditions, offering a fresh lens to decode the ...

How a booming smuggling market led a 15-ton iron space rock to be stolen, sold by terrorists and hidden somewhere in China ...

One mission would involve a full 300 sols on the Red Planet, with the goal of finding extinct or current life on Mars. But ...

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