NASA is at the precipice of a new era of Mars exploration that will hopefully expand to a ubiquitous presence at the Red ...

New thrusters could cut travel time to the Red Planet to three months and make the round-trip mission about two years total.

Ask a human when we will walk on Mars and you get a dream. Ask the data and you get a date. Feed everything we know into the ...

Mars atmospheric escape just gained a third confirmed mechanism: a Boston University study published in Science Advances ...

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The solar wind may be stripping away Mars’ atmosphere by creating giant rolling waves along its outer edge. Data from MAVEN ...

After more than 70 successful flights, a broken rotor ended the remarkable and groundbreaking Ingenuity helicopter mission on Mars. Now, NASA is considering how a larger, more capable helicopter could ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has experienced some serious wear and tear during its nearly 14 years on the Red Planet, as seen in new images of its wheels.

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One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...