A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Turning Martian dust into shelter has long sounded like science fiction, but researchers are now treating it as an ...

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

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.

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

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

If ancient Martian lakes persisted under seasonal ice rather than thick permanent ice, features on Mars that have been ...

For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things — and it does them, in the immortal words of President Kennedy, because they are hard. NASA’s most ambitious planetary project yet is Mars Sample ...