One newly released white paper highlights NASA’s decision to use fission power as the primary source of power on the Martian surface to sustain crews — the first of seven key decisions necessary for ...

For decades, scientists have believed that liquid water once shaped Mars’ surface. However, new research suggests that liquid ...

Pieris and her colleagues studied weather data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been observing the ...

On Mars, some of the most likely places to look for traces of ancient life may also be the least likely to preserve those ...

A mineral trapped within a Martian meteorite that fell to Earth has revealed traces of water on Mars that date back 4.45 billion years, according to new research. The zircon grain may contain the ...

A mineral grain from a meteorite preserved evidence that water was present on Mars 4.45 billion years ago, and it may have ...

OXFORD, Miss. – For the first time, three University of Mississippi researchers have been awarded National Science Foundation ...

In a new study, planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have begun to unravel the factors that kick off ...

Recently, a team of international scientists led by Prof. JIAN Zhang from the University of Science and Technology of China ...

Percy is on a road trip to the rim of Jezero Crater. After an arduous ascent to the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater, NASA's ...

Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like ...

Scientists have discovered that living conditions on Mars could be suitable for extraterrestrial life, though they emphasize ...