NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

Even as momentum builds toward sending humans to Mars in the next decade, several regions on the Red Planet remain off-limits ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered chemical patterns on Mars that may indicate ancient microbial life.

If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen beneath the planet's icy surface. A new study from NASA and Penn State University suggests fragments of biomolecules from ancient ...

LIGHTHAVEN, ONE kilometre down Telegraph Avenue from the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is a rambling conference facility which dedicates itself to “hosting events and programmes ...

"The structures that we were able to identify in the images are clearly the mouth of a river into an ocean." The post ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a coral-shaped rock on Mars. Though not alive, its shape reveals clues about the planet’s geology. Small discoveries like this help scientists decode Mars’ ancient past ...

Scientists propose using ice as a building material for Mars habitats, offering protection from radiation while allowing daylight inside.