The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes.

NASA is confronting a rare double setback at Mars, with one long-serving orbiter suddenly falling silent and another aging ...

NASA’s veteran Mars orbiter MAVEN has slipped into an unnerving quiet, cutting off a decade of continuous atmospheric ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this ...

"The detection of life on Mars is a persistent top priority for explorers of many disciplines, and it is the top science objective in this report." When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Sending astronauts to the red planet will be a decades-long activity and cost many billions of dollars. So why should NASA undertake such a bold mission? A new report published Tuesday, titled “A ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and steered by scientists at Penn State lays out ...

NASA announced it found promising potential biosignatures on Mars. Potential biosignatures are things like chemicals and structures that could be a result of life on the planet, but more research was ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five ...