A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the ...

Call for New Mars Life-Detection Missions Nearly 50 years after the Viking missions, Schulze-Makuch emphasizes the need for ...

The essential ingredient for life, water, appeared on both planets around 4.4 billion years ago, new research indicates.

To uncover the truth about the origins of these moons, scientists are looking forward to the Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) ...

Phobos and Deimos have long been thought to be captured asteroids due to their small size and irregular, asteroid-like shapes ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

India's space agency, ISRO, unveils ambitious plans for a Mars landing and a space station, aiming to facilitate a moon ...

Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one ...

Scientists analyzing the 'Black Beauty' meteorite have discovered a zircon grain that hints at hydrothermal systems on early ...

Finding evidence for the first life ever to emerge on planet earth is a long, tough slog. But oddly enough, real answers may ultimately come from Mars.

Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren't exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet a particularly dangerous place to be during pregnancy ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...