NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled.

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed ...

Scientists analyzed a sample, which likely contained fatty acids, that transformed into alkanes during the heating process ...

Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission. View on ...

A string of failures in space exploration is a lesson in the lessening of limitations.

Four and a half billion years ago Mars was a watery planet. Traces found in the planet's rock and sand suggest that around 23 cubic kilometres of water once flowed there. In a current publication in ...

Scientists are particularly excited because this suggests Mars had conditions that could have supported life. "It's fascinating. It's unexpected on a cold, dry planet like Mars," said Wiens. The ...

On its website, Pulsar Fusion claims Sunbird can fly 1000–2000 kg of commercial cargo to Mars in roughly four months ... eight years to reach the distant planet. Using Sunbird for an Earth ...

In space exploration, a planetary analog is a place on Earth that’s considered similar or comparable to the conditions found on another planet or moon. Horgan says finding a Mars analog here is ...

Mars’ thick crust may have held the key to underground water and hidden magmas—challenging what we thought we knew about the red planet’s past. Could this mean Mars was once more habitable than we ...

The previous opposition was on January 16, and as Mars recedes from Earth, March provides another good chance to see the Red Planet at its best. Anyone with an unobstructed view of the night sky ...