As dawn broke over the Martian landscape, NASA’s Perseverance rover captured an intriguing image of something drifting in the ...

The tests also revealed that the ditches only develop on dunes with very fine, evenly sized sand grains. Coarser or more jagged material prevents the burrowing motion, which could explain why the ...

Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a ...

After NASA announced it had found potential evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars, imagery supposedly released by the US ...

A NASA study shows bacteria fragments can survive 50 million years in Martian ice. Pure ice, not rock, could hold clues to ...

NASA’s “leopard-spotted” Martian rock may be the clearest potential sign of ancient microbial life yet—proof awaits sample ...

Imagine a visitor from another star system, twice as old as Earth, hurtling through our cosmic neighbourhood. This isn't ...

Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a ...

A new analysis of chemical signatures measured by NASA's Curiosity Rover gives a peek at Mars's past to a time some 3.7 ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

To improve long term mission sustainability, NASA is planning two missions in the near future to demonstrate how to produce water on the moon and oxygen on Mars. The initiative known as IRSU, or ...