NASA’s long-promised journey to Mars has often sounded like a hazy promise, safely parked in the “sometime in the 2030s” bucket. Yet the pieces now sliding into place, from lunar test flights to ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Mars Sample Return program has been effectively cancelled, meaning the best evidence of life on Mars could be trapped in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential ...

NASA is confronting a rare double setback at Mars, with one long-serving orbiter suddenly falling silent and another aging spacecraft expected to reach the end of its life soon. The twin problems ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies criteria that could allow robotic missions to certain locations on Mars to be carried out with ...

An ultraviolet view of Mars captured by NASA’s Maven spacecraft in July 2022. Credit: NASA/LASP/CU Boulder NASA is assessing a troubling loss of signal from a Mars orbiter that has spent the last 11 ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...