The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

With evidence pointing to serious kidney challenges, careful planning will be needed to keep crews healthy on space journeys ...

The surface of Mars is known for being an extremely cold, desiccated, and irradiated place. But as its many surface features ...

Elon Musk has detailed what it would require to build a successful and self-sustaining Martian city, which is still ... missions, is set to play a central role in ferrying humans and cargo to Mars.

This is what Mr Musk said he wanted to do last year. Then it seemed barely plausible. Today it looks next to impossible. Mr ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

But Curiosity wasn't the only one with a geological mystery. At the same time, roughly 2,300 miles away on the other side of ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing ...

Those were the last nails in the coffin for the idea that it could still be a warm, wet planet. But that didn’t kill the prospect of Martian life. Mars missions have not found alien-built canals.

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