NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its most tantalizing phase yet. NASA now says the layered stone, drilled by the ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

NASA joins ESA's ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission to Mars, guaranteeing launch in 2028 to search for life on the Red ...

NASA’s long record of Martian exploration has trained the public to expect a steady stream of images and data from the Red ...

NASA's latest update on Perseverance shows how the Mars rover is holding up after five years and what that means for future ...

Two recent discoveries from Mars - one from the surface and one in the atmosphere - are the latest evidence that the Red Planet could have once supported life, according to NASA. The space agency ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected the first-ever evidence of lightning on Mars, characterized by sharp crackles during dust devils. These small, centimeter-scale discharges, caused by friction ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery. While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – the crater where the rover first landed on the Red Planet in February 2021 ...

NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on ...

The image is a composite of 2 panoramas taken at different times of day, with color added for artistic interpretation. Curiosity has been exploring Mars for over a decade, searching for signs that the ...

American space agency is on the search for the perfect food system for Mars missions, launches the Deep Space Food Challenge: ...