One of the best parts about sending rovers like Perseverance to other planets, is sometimes they send back some absolutely ...

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

A recent press briefing led by NASA’s interim administrator Sean Duffyhighlighted the excitement around a new rock formation ...

HOUSTON — NASA has introduced its new class of astronaut candidates, some of whom may be among the first people to set foot on Mars. The cadre — the 24th astronaut class in NASA's history, and the ...

NASA has announced plans to procure a new communications satellite that would orbit Mars and transmit data to and from the Red Planet. The proposed price tag is $700 million, representing close to 4% ...

The dismissal of 550 JPL workers is the fourth round of recent layoffs at the lab, prompting fears of a brain drain ...

Thousands of NASA employees will be leaving the agency in the span of a few months, and the reason why raises many concerns ...

Researchers simulated Martian permafrost and ice cap conditions in a laboratory, exposing *Escherichia coli* samples in pure water ice and water-sediment mixtures to cosmic radiation equivalent to 50 ...

Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red ...

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

Mars has two permanent polar ice caps of water ice and some dry ice, and a few patches of ice both on and under the surface.