Slices from the edge of Mars reveal a layered atmosphere of delicate complexity. A European spacecraft has captured a ...

A European spacecraft has captured the most detailed images yet of Mars’s upper atmosphere, revealing a delicate, layered structure made of dust and ice particles. Described by scientists as ...

The investigation into the Mars helicopter Ingenuity accident has found that the "lack of surface texture gave the navigation ...

Billions of years ago, water flowed across Mars. Most scientists agree the red planet had rivers. But did those rivers flow ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found possible signs of ancient life in rocks on Mars, keeping scientists up at night.

Jezero Crater’s rocks reveal three stages of water activity, shifting from hostile acidic fluids to more life-friendly ...

The Perseverance rover’s new findings set the stage for bringing Martian samples back to Earth to test whether microbes once ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientists have used electrical pulses to manipulate magnetic information into a polarized light signal, a discovery that could revolutionize long-distance optical telecommunications, ...

Mars is a fascinating planet in our solar system. Over the years, space organizations have done a great deal of work to further explore Mars, including projects to get crews to the red planet. Mars ...

CNN — (CNN) — Here’s some background information about Mars exploration. The United States, Soviet Union and China are the only three countries to land a spacecraft on Mars. There have been nine ...