To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

Researchers have detected the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered new evidence that ancient Mars may have been able to support life. Researchers found ...

Dr Czechowski is convinced that the Oort Cloud, which lies deep beyond Neptune, holds billions of icy asteroids that can be ...

A new study led by a University of Calgary scientist has found evidence that suggests Mars once had a carbon cycle, giving ...

Terraforming Mars has been the long-term dream of colonization enthusiasts for decades. But when you start to grapple with ...

A Polish scientist has proposed a radical solution to terraform Mars by smashing icy asteroids from the Kuiper Belt into the ...