A comet from another star system is swinging by Mars as a fleet of spacecraft trains its sights on the interstellar visitor ...

On October 3, Comet 3I/ATLAS will be almost 29 million kilometers (18.006 million miles) from Mars. The European Space Agency ...

For years, scientists staring at Mars through the eyes of orbiting spacecraft noticed something strange: a mysterious signal ...

Raw, unfiltered passion, instinctual self-preservation, warrior energy, and an unwavering desire to achieve our goals—these ...

Mars, the red planet we know today as cold, dry, and desolate, might not have always been this way. New research from the University of Arkansas suggests that, billions of years ago, Mars was home to ...

It's not the first time there have been claims of signs of life on Mars, so why are scientists particularly thrilled now?

Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals.

Billions of years ago, water flowed across Mars. Most scientists agree the red planet had rivers. But did those rivers flow ...

A European spacecraft has captured the most detailed images yet of Mars’s upper atmosphere, revealing a delicate, layered ...

“The presence of this mineral puts a lot more nuance on what was going on,” said Mario Parente, an associate professor of ...

Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien ...