On Jan. 13, bright Mars will disappear behind the full moon for several hours. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

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

The exact mechanism behind Mars’ ubiquitous dust storms is little understood. But a recent discovery is an important step ...

We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little ...

The US$2.7-billion Perseverance rover collected the samples looking for evidence of past life, but NASA is dithering about ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

Mars’ strangely small mass still puzzles planetary scientists. Definitive answers as to why are still hard to come by.