Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the solar system: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...

Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...

While both options are more streamlined than the original plan, they each contain similar architecture, which requires ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

"Springtime on Earth has lots of trickling as water ice gradually melts. But on Mars, everything happens with a bang," Serina ...

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...