"These pockets of water on our planet are often teeming with simple life, including algae, fungi, and cyanobacteria," the ...

Jason Lee, an engineering professor from UConn,  returned this summer from a 45-day simulated mission to Mars at the Johnson ...

NASA's Mars rover has been exploring the Gale Crater since 2012. That's a long time to weather dust storms, drive along the ...

NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will take about six to ...

Before sending humans to Mars, NASA will first return humans to the Moon’s surface to test its technology and train ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught sight of an unusual boulder-strewn landscape with strange patterns not seen ...

NASA is in desperate need of an alternative plan for its Mars Sample Return, and is hoping the private industry can salvage ...

Despite the Red Planet's appearance, scientists have wondered for decades about the possibility of microbial life inhabiting ...

New data captured by NASA's Curiosity rover could give us more insight into why Mars is so dead and hostile despite its ...

NASA’s Artemis program plans to return humans to the moon this decade to practice and prepare for a Mars mission as early as ...

NASA and DARPA are developing nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) technology to enable faster crewed missions to Mars, ...

By 2035, NASA plans to explore Mars, building on experiences from lunar missions under the Artemis program. The Mars mission ...