Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

The planet Mars may once have enjoyed a much milder climate, accompanied by regular and abundant rain. This long-debated hypothesis finds new support thanks to recent observations by ...

Mars may have been much warmer and wetter billions of years ago than previously thought, according to new findings from NASA’s Perseverance Rover. The discovery challenges earlier theories that the ...

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NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

A northern summer dust storm on Mars boosted high-altitude water escape, suggesting short-lived events may play a bigger role ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's main goal is to detect faint light from distant galaxies, but it recently observed one of the brightest objects in the night sky: Mars. The space observatory captured ...

If you followed news about either the media industry or space exploration back in 2021, you probably remember when the New York Times accidentally published a story claiming that watermelons had been ...

As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned instead to his social network. There, he tapped out an extended message in ...

A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...