Research into brines suggests that frost-covered regions are the most promising candidates for future Martian habitability and astrobiological exploration. Because of the harsh, cold, and extremely ...

Discover the deadly effects of Mars' thin atmosphere, freezing temperatures, and intense radiation on the human body. Explore ...

Trump wants to leave it on the Red Planet. Louis Friedman is co-founder and former executive director of the Planetary Society. The three big questions about life — What is life? How did life ...

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

Mastcam captured colourful images of a trough and a nearby displaced block nicknamed “Ouro.” Scientists suspect it could be ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

As a day on Mars is just a little bit longer than an Earth day, at around 24 hours and 39 minutes, NASA measures its Mars missions in “sols” or martian days.

After twenty years of careful investigation, a researcher feels he has enough evidence to confirm brines can form on Mars.

The Mars drivers’ main job is to write the sequence of commands for the rover to follow the next sol, or “day” on Mars, which lasts 24 hours and nearly 40 minutes.

NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captures one of the Red Planet's biggest volcanoes peeking over clouds at dawn. ... Space photo of the day for June 10, 2025. Kenna Hughes-Castleberry.

On its 4,500th sol (or Martian day), NASA's Mars rover Curiosity continued its climb of Mount Sharp (Aeolis Mons) at the center of Gale Crater. Before it can ascend higher, though, the six-wheeled ...