A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

A new report lays out the objectives for a crewed mission to Mars. Plus, an update on the NASA mission to survey the asteroid ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

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

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things — and it does them, in the immortal words of President Kennedy, because they are hard. NASA’s most ambitious planetary project yet is Mars Sample ...

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