After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, with no ice covering the surface ...

Mars represents one of the most promising locations in our solar system to search for signs of past or present life ...

Discoveries of clay minerals in Martian mounds by researchers indicate that Mars once had large bodies of water billions of ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never gets old for Mariek Schmidt.

The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.

The Moon and asteroids are at the top of the mission list for a number of agencies, while others will focus on exploration to ...

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

The wheels of rovers wear out badly on Mars. NASA is testing new types of wheels made from a special alloy that are less susceptible to deformation.

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.