Curiosity has detected a surprising variety of organic molecules on Mars, including compounds tied to the chemistry of life.

For all the drama around getting to Mars, the harder question starts after landing. A person can step onto the planet with ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery inGale Crater on Mars, uncovering the highest concentrations of ...

The organic molecules discovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover could have been formed by life, but they could have also come from ...

Elon Musk says he wants to send one million people to Mars by the year 2050. The SpaceX CEO has become famous for making huge promises about colonizing the red planet. But how many of those ideas are ...

Scientists edge closer to answering Mars’ biggest question: Did life ever exist on the red planet? Here's the latest from two ...

Image Credit: jurvetson - CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia. SpaceX founder Elon Musk just said the company is stepping back from its previously touted plan to send humans to Mars in the near term in favor of ...

NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a newly adapted climate model, researchers showed that thin, seasonal ice ...

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