The moons of Mars are garnering increased attention, not only because they could provide a view of the solar system's past ...

Elon Musk's father has predicted that SpaceX will successfully land on Mars within the next two years, marking a potential ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long promised to make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent outpost on Mars.

A Chinese Mars rover may have found evidence of an ancient ocean on the arid Red Planet. According to a new paper in the ...

A new video shows what it would be like to cruise over the surface of Mars, zooming in to the planet from orbit and into a ...

On September 29, 2013, SpaceX performed the first supersonic retropropulsion (SRP) maneuver to decelerate the reentry of the ...

However, for years, scientists have argued that the Viking's experimental techniques might’ve killed hygroscopic microbes ...

In “A City on Mars,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate what life would be like for humans on the red planet, arguing ...

Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes his research into extremophiles in the Atacama could help NASA re-assess its search for ...

Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...

"The experiments performed by NASA's Viking landers may have accidentally killed Martian life by applying too much water," ...

Not every mission to Mars has been successful. Reaching Mars is a hard and unforgiving endeavor, with little room for error. A large proportion of missions launched ...