NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Red Planet life, according ...

NASA funds new software to enhance drone navigation over featureless Martian terrain. This initiative supports autonomous ...

NASA is stress-testing new Mars exploration tech in Earth's harshest deserts, revealing surprising insights into how future ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

Near-surface water ice could supply essential resources for future human exploration on the Red Planet. Before sending people ...

When one thinks of lightning, the image that comes to mind is that of terrestrial storms. But on Mars, a planet where water ...

Forget the dusty, rusty landscape you see today. Billions of years ago, Mars may have been soaking wet. Tropical storms might ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

This temporal lag is a direct consequence of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. The rule is simple: the weaker ...

Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through ...

Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...