In 1877, an Italian astronomer mapped faint lines on Mars and called them canali, meaning channels or grooves. But the word ...

Scientists find huge ‘magma systems’ inside Mars - Findings suggest that more planets could be habitable than we thought, ...

Scientists in a recent breakthrough have discovered vast hidden magma systems beneath the surface of Mars, marking an “unexpected discovery” leading the researchers closer to finding ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

Space Astronomy Planets Mars NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, leaving China to retrieve signs of life from the Red Planet NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a ...

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...

Humanity has dreamed about discovering life on alien planets for as long as we have dreamed about visiting other worlds. Since Mars is the closest planet to Earth we can feasibly visit (hopefully by ...

"Technology has advanced where there's radiation shielding, and now people can bring their families to live on Mars. The sense of a Mars-y identity has started to form in a way that’s creating ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered one of the most intriguing clues yet in humanity's search for life beyond Earth.

A new survey of hundreds of astrobiologists reveals that, despite NASA's high-profile declarations about Mars and exoplanet K2-18b, most experts do not yet think alien life has probably been found.

While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of looks like a giant reptile had shed its skin across the planet’s surface.