NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

The idea of an ancient Martian ocean has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, groundbreaking research based on radar scans ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s. It was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...

A new study in the journal Nature Communications reveals that Mars is red for very much the same reason it may have once been home to life — namely, that it was a wet planet. This is in line with ...

These studies show that Mars is bombarded by meteorites far more often than previously thought — about 2.5 times more ...

Research published late last year indicated “seismic discontinuities in the Martian crust” that scientists believe could be an indicator of liquid water under the Martian surface, raising the ...

The study, based on data collected by Zhurong as its radar instrument peered beneath the surface to examine hidden rock ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...