Mars keeps refusing to behave like the dead, simple world many scientists once imagined. Each new rover trench, fractured ...

Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6.

Mars Express has found a unique butterfly-shaped crater on Mars. This formation resulted from a space rock hitting at a low ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Mars Express orbiter captures a slightly elliptical crater measuring roughly 12 miles (20 kilometres) east to wes ...

Since humanity's first steps on the moon, the aspiration to extend human civilization beyond Earth has been a central ...

The European Space Agency shared a striking Mars image. It shows a crater shaped like butterfly wings. The photograph came ...

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...