NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, but what if the red planet actually delivered life to Earth in the first place?

WASHINGTON — The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes. The report, A Science Strategy for the ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that's been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend.

MAVEN has circled Mars for more than a decade, exploring the planet and relaying data from robots on the surface. Reading time 2 minutes NASA has lost the signal from a Martian probe that also serves ...

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 ...

Andy Weir, a computer programmer turned novelist, packs his books with real science. He brought that attention to detail to Ridley Scott’s adaptation of The Martian as the film’s science expert, and ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a ...

When the wind blows on Mars, electricity crackles through the air. For the first time, scientists have detected electricity in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover ...

The Perseverance rover picked up audio evidence of electric discharges in the red planet’s atmosphere. By Kenneth Chang It is shocking but not surprising. Lightning crackles on Mars, scientists ...

Dust devils on Mars could be brewing electric currents, and scientists may have just heard them strike the arid landscape in a first-of-its-kind discovery. Planetary scientists detected new evidence ...

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...