Jezero Crater, once a lake bed some 3.5 billion years ago, has become the focus of NASA’s search for signs of past life. It’s ...

The Curiosity Rover has spotted a mushroom on Mars, leading some alien enthusiasts to proclaim that we have found "life" on the red planet. The rover took a photo on the Martian surface, which shows ...

The planet Mars is home to thick layers of clay that can span hundreds of feet. Since they need water to form, these outcrops ...

The ongoing dispute between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over a major spending bill has intensified ...

The row between Donald Trump and Elon Musk over a major spending bill has exacerbated uncertainty over the future of Nasa's ...

Europe’s ExoMars mission is among the highest-profile casualties of the US president’s plan to slash research funding.

The study proposes that fine dust particles from the Martian atmosphere settle on sloped terrain. Events like wind gusts, meteorite impacts, or marsquakes then dislodge this accumulated dust, causing ...

Finding long carbon chains on Mars is significant because it shows that NASA scientists are on the right track in the way that they search for signs of life ... on the way. ESA’s ExoMars ...

The search for signs of ancient Martian life is getting an airborne assist. The ultimate goal, aside from discovering whether Mars was ever an inhabited world, is to bring back a cache of pristine ...

Clipper will first fly to Mars to slingshot ... a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Clipper will identify the most promising areas to search for life—such as near ...