Science writer David Baron explores the initial interest in whether there was life on Mars in his latest book, "The Martians: ...

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE ...

A pair of small satellites began their 2 year journey to Mars to study the red planet's magnetic field and how solar wind has stripped the atmosphere there over millions of years ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

On13, NASA launched the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars. The name MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. The ...

Researcher Valentin Bickel wanted to know just how intense winds can be on the red planet. Using data obtained by the Mars ...

Coloe Fossae was shaped by powerful tectonics, which stretched and cracked Mars's crust, causing chunks of ground to collapse ...

This is important because it gives a more realistic sense of the chemical state of the gas before it’s released at the ...