Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing.

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

A single metallic boulder sitting in an ancient Martian riverbed is forcing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about the Red Planet. The rock, an apparent interplanetary visitor, is not ...

ESA images show a large meteoroid strike on Apollinaris Mons, leaving more than 100 mysterious moving dust marks on Mars.

NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.

Strange grooves, swirling valleys, and hidden ice far from Mars’s poles reveal a surprisingly recent ice age, as new ESA ...

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 ...

It's clear that Mars once gushed with water. Today, aerial views of the Red Planet's Jezero crater (shown below) reveal that water once poured into this basin, leaving behind telltale signs of rivers, ...

For centuries – maybe millennia – humans have wondered how Mars gets its red hue, but a recent study has some answers.