Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...

To create LignoSat, researchers used honoki, a type of magnolia tree native to Japan and normally used to make sword covers.

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

Massive sunspot AR3576 has been captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: ...

A zircon crystal from a Martian meteorite unlocks secrets of a water-rich, dynamic Mars 4.45 billion years ago.

Data from the Mars Express orbiter has been used to create a visualization of "a vast system of deep and steep valleys that stretches out for around 1190 km," on Mars called Noctis Labyrinthus, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

In 1975, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft and its two landers began searching for signs of life on Mars. While initial tests hinted ...

Firming up plans to go to Mars would be fine, so long as it is not done at the expense of returning to the moon.