Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The fourth planet Mars will soon shine brighter than the night sky’s ...

In “A City on Mars,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate what life would be like for humans on the red planet, arguing ...

The team analyzed meteorites from a large space rock designated as NWA7034 or “Black Beauty.” While all Martian meteorites ...

However, for years, scientists have argued that the Viking's experimental techniques might’ve killed hygroscopic microbes ...

"The experiments performed by NASA's Viking landers may have accidentally killed Martian life by applying too much water," ...

There's no shortage of cool features of mysterious origins to be found on the surface of Mars, but the next one that NASA ...

For a little while each day, in some sense, the young geologist had this hatchling Mars all to himself. The world unfolding in front of him was not, as he put it, "your mother's Mars." It was not ...

Mars, once a planet teeming with vast amounts of water, is now a dry, desolate landscape. The evidence for this ...

We have been very lucky with many landing missions, but not all of them made it down successfully. Here's a look at the best (and worst) Mars landings of all time: Mars 2, a lander built by the ...

The Mars Return Sample (MRS ... You can follow MailOnline's coverage for all the updates as they happen, or watch the announcement live on NASA TV Live. The MRS mission began in February 2021 ...