A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

President Donald Trump recently announced that the United States would work to land astronauts on Mars, preferably within the ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

Astronauts face vision loss due to microgravity-induced eye changes. NASA races to find solutions before Mars missions, where ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?