After nearly five years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover's durability and gathering new science ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) officially went into service above the Red Planet in November 2006. The spacecraft ...

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.

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

For decades, the search for life on Mars has been a story of hints and maybes, of chemical curiosities that stopped just ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

Leading US scientists and engineers have published a 200-page report, "A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars," ...

NASA reported 2025 achievements in lunar, Mars, and Earth science missions, including Artemis II preparations, CLPS landers, Mars ESCAPADE, ISS research, heliophysics, and new astronaut candidates.

NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.

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 ...