The search for signs of life on Mars needs a bit of a rethink, scientists argue in a new study. A popular strategy calls for investigating spots where waterborne sediment accumulated long ago ...

Mars 96 was launched from Kazakhstan on Sunday morning, Sydney time, aboard a Proton rocket. Its fourth stage failed, stranding the craft in an 87-minute Earth orbit.

Today, the Planetary Society's Susan Lendroth pointed out that even before Mars 96, "Visions of Mars" made a successful sortie into space, thanks to NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid.

You may not see too many blogs phrasing it this way, but the odds of nothing happening with Mars have gone done from 99% to 96%. 2007 WD5 is a 50 or so meter wide rock heading toward Mars, and may ...

A popular strategy calls for investigating spots where waterborne sediment accumulated long ago, like the ancient lake-bed environment that NASA's Curiosity rover discovered inside Mars' 96-mile ...

The car-sized Curiosity landed inside Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater in August 2012, on a quest to determine if the area could have supported Earth-like life long ago.. The robot ...

NASA rover successfully makes oxygen on Mars 00:24. ... Since Mars' atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide, MOXIE works by separating oxygen atoms from carbon dioxide molecules.

A NASA Mars orbiter recently spotted the Curiosity rover driving across the Red Planet's surface, capturing an unprecedented ...

In the rover's five years on Mars, it has completed an extensive list of tasks that have taught those back on Earth a lot about the history of the planet and whether life on Mars may one day be ...