NASA's Curiosity rover has new insights into how Mars might have changed from a potentially habitable, water-rich planet to an absolutely uninhabitable desert. The search for life on Mars goes ...

Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life -- with ...

CEO Elon Musk says his company plans to launch five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. Musk announced the plans in an X post Sunday afternoon, September 22. The goal aligns with his ...

Elon Musk took to X on Sunday to tell people that if they vote for Donald Trump, he’ll take them to Mars within several years—and if they vote for Kamala Harris, they can kiss a trip to outer ...

Where exactly did Mars' atmosphere go? This question has been a central mystery of Mars' 4.6-billion-year history. For two MIT geologists, the answer may lie in the planet's clay. In a paper ...

They mystery thriller 'Veronica Mars' premiered 20 years ago on Sept. 22, 2004. Find out what the cast has been up to since the series wrapped Warner Bros. Television / Courtesy Everett Collection ...

Few things in space are simply black and white — but this bizarre rock certainly is. NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover discovered a strange black-and-white rock unlike anything seen on Mars ...

The Perseverance team nicknamed this unusual striped rock "Freya Castle." Mars fans have been abuzz since NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted an extraordinary rock on Sept. 13. A raw image sent ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has encountered something unlike anything else discovered on the Red Planet: a zebra-striped rock that sticks out like a sore thumb in the midst of the planet's ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found an odd zebra-striped rock while exploring Jezero Crater on Mars in September 2024. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU On Mars, some 120 million miles away in space ...

New research suggests the atmosphere of Mars may be hiding in plain sight, having been absorbed by minerals in the Red Planet's clays. If Mars' envelope of gas did "go to ground" over 3 billion ...

Elon Musk has vowed to get "anyone who wants to be a space traveller" to Mars - but not if Kamala Harris becomes US president. On Sunday night, Musk told his X followers that in just two years ...