Groundbreaking research into Mars' energy balance reveals a polar surplus driving dynamic weather patterns, including massive ...

Nasa has been working on a range of technologies for astronauts to travel to and from Mars, which would take three years.

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission, aimed at analyzing Martian rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover, faces a ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

Geologically, Mars is very reminiscent of the moon. But it also looks a lot like the Earth. It all depends on who you ask.

Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by ...

When NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took flight on Mars in April 2021, it marked a historic moment in space exploration. This small, solar-powered rotorcraft became the first aircraft to achieve ...

The electricity for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is provided by a power system called a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, or MMRTG. Essentially a nuclear battery, an MMRTG ...

The bitter cold air in the winter is also less hazy than it is during the summer, so stars and planets like Mars can be easier ... According to NASA, “fireballs are larger explosions of light ...

Mars' surface is littered with loose rocks, and this year NASA's rovers found a bunch of weird ones. In January, the Curiosity rover spotted an arrowhead-shaped rock on the slopes of Mount Sharp ...