Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

NASA highlights some of the discoveries it has made on the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

Mars’s gravity shapes ice ages on Earth, new research finds - 'Without Mars, Earth’s orbit would be missing major climate ...

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This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

Advances in synthetic biology, planetary engineering, and ultra-low-cost launch systems have dramatically altered how ...

NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to ...

Arcadia Planitia does not draw attention in the way Mars’s great canyons or volcanoes do. It sits quietly across the northern ...

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MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.