The story of humanity’s quest to understand Mars spans six decades. From Mariner 4’s first images to Viking landers searching for life and modern rovers uncovering ancient rivers, every mission has ...

A routine drive by NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally cracked open a Martian rock, revealing rare yellow sulfur crystals. The strange discovery has scientists questioning how such an unexpected ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has spied a pitted rock face known as "Timboy Chaco" as it explores a region of the Red Planet called Mount Sharp.

Water is considered the basic building block for life as we know it. An extended water history on Mars widens the window of opportunity for life to have once emerged there.

New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago ...

NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will uncover how the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere. Mars is a very different world ...

A rugged Martian landscape that resembles a vast spiderweb when seen from orbit is offering new insights into the planet’s ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is investigating strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars that may reveal a hidden chapter of the planet’s watery history. These “boxwork” formations likely formed when groundwater ...

The star astrophysicist sat down with Newsweek to discuss Mars missions and what truly drives human discovery.

NASA's Artemis II mission is sending humans back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. Here are the reasons ...

The latest evidence that Mars was once a warmer, wetter world comes from a surprising place—the hidden subsurface depths of ...

On Episode 201 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Jay Gallentine to talk about former Jet ...