A one-way trip to Mars takes somewhere between seven and 10 months, following a fairly direct route between Earth and our neighboring planet. But what if we could cut that journey by more than half, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified seven new organic compounds on the planet Mars, according to new research published in Nature Communications. The researchers believe this organic matter may have ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said Tuesday. The organic ...

Mars may have once had an ocean so vast that it covered one-third of the planet before evaporating billions of years ago and leaving behind a telltale sign: a flat band of land, outlining the former ...

NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as late 2028, on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. So ...

NASA has confirmed the pending launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosalind Franklin rover, which is being sent to Mars. The current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from ...

Incoming views of Mars usually show its dusty, tan-colored surface littered with rocks, a familiar desert-like world that has looked more or less the same for millions of years. However, a new image ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In January 1944, Major General James Doolittle, the new commander of the U.S. Eighth Air ...

NASA's Artemis program aims to return humans to the moon, which is seen as a stepping stone for future missions to Mars. The upcoming Artemis II mission will be a 10-day test flight circling the moon ...

Bethany Ehlmann is a planetary scientist and director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, and president of The Planetary Society. Curiosity draws ...

Mars may look like a frozen desert today, but new evidence suggests its watery past didn’t simply fade away quietly—it may have been blasted into space by powerful dust storms. Scientists have ...

NASA is sending a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars. Alongside Tuesday's announcement of its new Ignition program, which features a planned Moon base and a successor to the International Space ...