A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...

A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of ...

New research suggests Mars was once a blue planet, as scientists identify river deltas and signs of a vast ancient ocean on ...

Curiosity took the images in the morning and the evening to show what light looks like during different parts of the day.

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

Mars has never looked more like a planet built for hiding secrets. A cluster of eight vast, water-carved caves appears almost engineered to shield fragile chemistry, or even biology, from the brutal ...

Hints of ancient microbes in Martian rocks and a revived theory about our cosmic ancestry are forcing scientists to rethink where the story of life really began. Instead of a warm little pond on early ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure sports a pair of smooth, rocky wings, which were likely "fluidized" by buried ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...