A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint ...

A green comet shooting past Earth for the first time since the Ice Age is about to skim right past Mars in the night sky. The green comet and the red planet ... Tech Memo An icon in the shape ...

Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora would show up ...

Not the luminous green blobs with three eyes and wobbly antennae, but humans, born and raised on the Red Planet. NASA researchers are currently spending a year in a simulated Mars habitat in Texas ...

A specific area on Mars has been identified as a potential location for current life – with the organisms living far beneath the surface. Andrea Butturini at the University of Barcelona and his ...

However, since its first test flight in April 2021, the helicopter has exceeded all expectations by flying more than 50 different sorties across Mars and surviving long and dark winters.

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the extremophiles could potentially live on the Red Planet.

The Curiosity rover has made its most unusual find to date on Mars: rocks made ... revealing yellowish-green crystals never spotted before on the red planet. “I think it’s the strangest ...