For decades, the Moon was treated as a dead end, a place where flags and footprints marked the limits of human reach. Now ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

The bill would cut the Office of Fossil Energy down to $720 million, including $140 million in prior year balances from the ...

The king of the solar system, the giant planet Jupiter, will reach opposition. Because Earth will be almost directly between ...

China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, has provided groundbreaking insights into the history of water on Mars, showing that ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Mars has always felt like a silent, dusty world in our imaginations, swept by winds and storms but eerily quiet, much like ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, ...

U.S. plans to return Mars samples face delays as China advances its own mission. Scientists and policymakers debate costs, timelines, and the role of sample return in future Mars exploration ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.