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

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has successfully completed a set of rigorous actuator tests, which agency managers hope is a sign that the problem-plagued rover mission has finally turned a ...

LOS ANGELES — NASA's flagship mission to land a nuclear-powered, next-generation rover on Mars is facing development problems and ballooning costs that could threaten its scheduled launch next year.

For decades, scientists believed that Mars’s famous red hue came mainly from hematite, a dry iron oxide mineral. However, a recent study challenges this long-held view and points to a different ...

Geochemical evidence from laboratory experiments for a potential solid inner core at the center of Mars is reported in Nature Communications. Data from NASA's InSight mission has revealed that Mars ...

It’s an age-old question. Was there ever life on Mars? Earth just got closer to an answer — maybe. A rover built and managed in Southern California, with a mission to understand the Red Planet has ...

LOS ANGELES - NASA's flagship mission to land a nuclear-powered, next-generation rover on Mars is facing development problems and ballooning costs that could threaten its scheduled launch next year.

The distance feat comes as the Mars Perseverance rover reaches another milestone. After nearly five years of roaming the Red Planet, it’s now traveled almost 25 miles. With the help of autonomous ...