Mars, also called the Red Planet, is one of the most familiar planets in our solar system – apart from Earth, of course! Mars has become a hot topic of conversation because of the idea of ...

Airbus has won a contract to build the lander for Europe's first Mars rover. The UK firm has replaced Russia's space agency ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.

Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for ...

China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, another milestone for its space program after putting humans into orbit and landing a probe on the moon. It is among a trio of nations, along with the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Airbus the contract to design and construct the landing platform for the ExoMars ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

Mars, also called the Red Planet, is one of the most familiar planets in our solar system – apart from Earth, of course! Famous for its distinctive colour, Mars has become a hot topic of ...

The British arm of Airbus has won a 150 million pound ($194 million) contract from the European Space Agency to build the ...

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