China’s Zhurong rover has uncovered tantalizing evidence that Mars was once covered by vast oceans, revealing inclined sediment layers that may mark fossilized shorelines. This historic mission has ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has reportedly announced plans to prioritize going to the moon first and attempt a trip to Mars later. The company will target March 2027 for a lunar landing without astronauts on ...

SpaceX has put off a mission to Mars planned for this year, shifting its focus to a long-promised lunar voyage for NASA. The rocket company told investors it will prioritize going to the moon first ...

To land on the right foot on the Red Planet, European engineers have been dropping a skeleton of the four-legged ExoMars descent module at various speeds and heights on simulated Martian surfaces. The ...

NASA's Curiosity rover captured a panoramic image of Mars that resembles an Earthly sunset. For over a decade, the Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for signs of past life. The rover took the ...

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less than a meter beneath the surface, close enough to be harvested for water, ...

NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies the highest priority science objectives for the first human mission to Mars, and says searching ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The giant New Glenn rocket from billionaire Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched from Florida on its debut mission for paying customers on Thursday, sending two NASA ...