"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...

Pumping an unimaginable amount of groundwater out of the earth is why Earth has tilted over two dozen degrees, a study found.

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

Was Mars just like Earth billions of years ago? A new study is making a very compelling case that our Martian neighbor may ...

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

Scientists simulated a situation that may offer an improved explanation for how the Red Planet ended up with small Phobos and ...

Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...

Using a mix of China's Zhurong Mars rover's onboard instruments, scientists identified several intriguing water-related features.

On September 29, 2013, SpaceX performed the first supersonic retropropulsion (SRP) maneuver to decelerate the reentry of the ...

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

Analyzing the chemical composition of the meteorite’s 4.45 billion-year-old zircon grain — a mineral that is typically only a ...

China is another step closer to bringing the first pieces of the red planet back to Earth with the development of a ...