For decades,reaching Mars has meant committing to long, complex journeys across millions of miles of space, missions measured ...

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced the Tianwen 3, a daring Mars sample return mission to launch in 2028 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA revealed Tuesday its plans to build a permanent base on the moon. The space agency also announced a mission plan to launch a ...

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

Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a frozen desert where even a thin wisp of air struggles to hold on. NASA’s ...

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

New images from the Mars Express spacecraft show ancient volcanic ash spreading across the Red Planet The wide strip of land in Utopia Planitia is imaged by Mars Express. The dark ...

Researchers identified a species that can survive radiation, extreme heat and simulated Martian soil, posing a new challenge ...

When humans finally land on Mars, what should they do? A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine lays out the science objectives for a crewed Mars mission.

A Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent Red Planet colony has received its first funding from sponsors, officials announced this week. Mars One plans to ...