Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals.

Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien ...

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

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

A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the ...

Edgar once designed science experiments for astronauts to perform. Now she'll be the astronaut performing them.

NASA’s Mars InSight mission made history with a series of firsts in planetary science. This documentary explores its ...

"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...

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

The recent finding by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars—a possible sign of ancient microbial life in the rock nicknamed ...

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

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