Learn about past and upcoming Mars missions, NASA's role in Mars exploration, and the future of human space travel, including ...

Imagine a common item in your kitchen pantry, one that you use almost daily, surviving on the harsh surface of Mars. This ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, a $2.7 billion mission, faced a significant challenge when it nearly lost a critical tool during its operations on Mars. This incident, recently reported, highlights the ...

Mars has two permanent polar ice caps of water ice and some dry ice, and a few patches of ice both on and under the surface.

NASA's Viking landers were the first spacecraft to successfully touch down on the surface of Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP Finding life beyond the Earth would be a major scientific discovery with ...

Scientists discovered that baker’s yeast can survive harsh Mars-like conditions, revealing how simple life forms adapt under ...

University of Arizona engineers are still trying to correct a problem with one of the main science experiments on the Phoenix Mars Lander. Only a few particles of the clumpy Martian soil have made it ...

You know how smug tourists like to talk about how climbing volcanoes in Hawaii is out of this world? Turns out they're sort of right. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is finally starting to get some ...

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Laurie Leshin fell in love with Mars when she was 10 years old. It was 1976, the year NASA landed its twin Viking probes on the surface of the Red Planet, beaming back the first closeups of the rocky, ...