Mars is rich in ice, both on and under its surface—with more predicted to lie farther below its dusty exterior. If future ...

Mars will never be forgiving, and survival there will depend on engineering choices—not optimism. From radiation and ...

Elon Musk has repeatedly said he plans to put humans on Mars, yet the gap between that vision and reality remains wide. The ...

Life on Mars sounds like something from a "Doctor Who" episode. But a study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology challenges the science fiction notion of that idea. The research ...

Recently, NASA revealed exciting details of new findings from Mars. Scientists have discovered tiny patterns of unusual minerals in the clay-rich rocks on the edge of Jezero Crater—an ancient lake ...

Experiments show that biomolecules trapped in pure ice could withstand the harsh radiation of Mars for tens of millions of years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer (and uncle of the fashion icon Elsa), started making a map of ...

Seán Jordan receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 1101114969) and from Research ...