The Perseverance rover is continuing its mission to find clues about the geological past of Mars. The rover’s main goals are ...

“The presence of liquid water [on Mars] is a broad topic that includes rains, rivers, lakes, as well as oceans,” says Ezat ...

The thin air of Mars has long been treated as a problem to be solved, a hostile mix of carbon dioxide and dust that stands ...

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean billions of years ago ...

Olympus Mons is a giant volcano on Mars. It is the tallest mountain in space. It is almost three times higher than Mount ...

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"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open. As engineers refine maps of potential Mars landing sites, one location ...

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

Scientists suspect that the surface of Mars was once teeming with water, a lush oasis full of river systems and lakes — until a dramatic change in the planet’s magnetic field caused it to lose most of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges, which sound ...