NASA and DARPA have partnered to develop a demonstration nuclear-powered rocket that could speed travel to Mars and make ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

Martian dust contains hazardous substances like silica, perchlorates, nanophase iron oxides and toxic metals, which can cause ...

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

The rover carries several swatches of spacesuit materials, and scientists are assessing how they’ve held up after four years ...

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

A British company says they developed a secret nuclear rocket that could cut in half the mission times to Mars. Pulsar Fusion ...

NASA’s Curiosity Martian rover finds organic-like, long-chain alkanes preserved in the planet’s mudstone Twelve years after ...

We can’t say the molecules are the product of life, but the findings indicate if Mars had life billions of years ago, the ...

From its perch in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high mountain, you can see over an expanse of plains, called Aeolis Palus, ...

Even in the inner solar system, spacecraft such as lunar or Mars rovers need alternative power sources. As an astrophysicist ...