The presidential budget suggests trashing science missions in favor of colonizing Mars. A new study argues that research must ...

Is transforming Mars into a habitable planet achievable? A team of scientists is re-examining this question with recent ...

Terraforming Mars might sound far-fetched, but researchers argue in a new study that we should take the idea seriously.

THE son of a NASA scientist who was convinced he found aliens on Mars is begging the space agency to search again. American ...

have shown that radiation from the sun is slowly stripping away Mars’ atmosphere. Brain and his colleagues want to learn more about why that might happen to some planets and not others. In the new ...

The work was "crucial science as we prepare to send people on to the red planet," he said ... Koerner said. "Mars is our goal," he said, calling the project an important step in America's ...

A complex project aimed at retrieving rock and dirt samples from Mars has long been a top priority ... of whether life once existed on the red planet. The Perseverance rover, manufactured by ...

and has provided better detail of the elemental and chemical makeup of the planet’s surface and atmosphere. The project has also resulted in a topographical map of Mars, high-res surface images ...