See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission arrived on Mars and began transmitting images from the surface of the Red Planet. The rover, ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

What can the climate history of Mars teach scientists about whether the Red Planet once had the ingredients for life as we ...

Martian dust devils may spark with electricity, potentially zapping rovers. New models show that charged dust could interfere ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has begun drilling into a rock on Mars as it tries to collect more information about the Red Planet ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked ...

On Sol 215, Perseverance's microphones were open as it entered the eye of a dust devil, finding a "very sharp and intense" signal.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...