Learn how NASA’s satellite fleet helps provide weather Information for the missions on the surface of Mars. Credit: ...

NASA’s rovers and orbiters take digital photos, send them as radio signals to orbiters, which relay them across space to ...

A new analysis of chemical signatures measured by NASA's Curiosity Rover gives a peek at Mars's past to a time some 3.7 ...

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

The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...

Mars has two moons, but they're not quite like Earth's moon. That's raised a lot of questions about where they're from, ...

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

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.

“It’s a chance for families, students and anyone curious about the cosmos to get an up-close experience of Mars that is both ...

In 2013, NASA discovered a bacteria evading its most stringent disinfections. Scientists just figured out how it does it.

SpaceX’s delays forced NASA to reopen its moon lander contract. Rivals are circling, Artemis is wobbling, and China’s steady ...

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 ...