“The presence of this mineral puts a lot more nuance on what was going on,” said Mario Parente, an associate professor of ...

NASA recently announced that its Perseverance Mars rover discovered rock material containing potential biosignatures, with ...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk says he will rocket Optimus bots on the first Starships sent to Mars, but a leading robotics scholar ...

The entire progression will be observed by the ESA’s orbiters the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter as well as ...

New research from the U of A found strong evidence in Mars' geology of a former ocean in the planet's northern hemisphere.

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

A European spacecraft has captured the most detailed images yet of Mars’s upper atmosphere, revealing a delicate, layered ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

US President Donald Trump has pledged to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”, China says it will send its first crewed mission to Mars within a decade, and Elon Musk wants people to ...

A fleet of ball-shaped rovers could drift across the Martian surface like tumbleweed, driven simply by the wind.

Because all earthly life shares a common origin, finding a second tree of life would forever change humanity’s understanding ...