Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled.

While Curiosity mission scientists have previously identified small, simple organic molecules on the red planet, the ...

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For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is tirelessly exploring Mars and recently overcame a rocky challenge to collect another valuable ...

However, their current hardness differs from Earth’s kaolinite, suggesting additional geological processes have altered them over time. Mars’s history is written in its rocks, and each discovery adds ...

In our previous installments, we examined how crewed missions to Mars have been on the books for decades. We also examined how these plans have evolved to meet new timetables, budget environments ...

Credit: X @POTUS WASHINGTON — President Trump says a human mission to Mars is of interest to him but is not a “number one” priority, amid concerns about potential sweeping budget cuts at NASA.

There are, to be fair, a lot of things we don't know about the geological history of Mars, but the discovery of scads of pure sulfur just hanging about on the Martian surface suggests that there's ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Seismic data from Mars, analyzed using the SEIS instrument from NASA's InSight lander, suggests the presence of liquid water beneath the Martian surface. This ...