For the first time in the history of space exploration, a robot on the surface of another planet looked up and photographed a ...

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its surface. So, ...

You're in the lab analyzing Martian regolith samples within your cozy Mars habitat serving on the fifth human mission to Mars ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA revealed Tuesday its plans to build a permanent base on the moon. The space agency also announced a mission plan to launch a ...

When NASA announced a new Mars helicopter mission called Skyfall last week, the immediate response from most scientists had little to do with the ambitious plan to launch tiny, robotic aircraft to the ...

"I’d say that while an astronaut could make it to Mars they might need dialysis on the way back," researchers said.

The goal is to recreate the conditions of a future colony on the red planet in the place on Earth that most closely resembles ...

On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...

If all goes according to plan, MMX will arrive in orbit around Mars in 2027 to begin mapping and analyzing Phobos and Deimos ...