NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

As the rush to send missions and eventually humans to Mars becomes intense with Elon Musk planning the first uncrewed mission ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover faced a challenging Mars rock named “Kenmore,” revealing valuable insights into Martian geology.

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient ...

A Texas A&M research team has developed synthetic lichens that could be the answer to self-growing structures on Mars.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover ground down a portion of a rock surface, blew away the resulting debris, and then went to work ...

Scientists have created living communities of bacteria and fungi that could survive in protective habitats on the Red Planet.

With crewed missions to the Red Planet becoming a realistic possibility for the 2030s, researchers have begun the search for ...

To address this, a Texas A&M University engineering professor collaborating with University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers ...

NASA images reveal shallow ice beneath Mars’s surface, offering a promising water source for future astronauts and clues to ...

Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings over the past half ...

See how people have imagined life on Mars through history. Scheming invaders. Benevolent vegetarians. Climate refugees. As scientific exploration has advanced, so have creative interpretations of ...