NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

The initial NASA mission to Mars has yielded controversial results and may have damaged life on Mars. A study shows new findings about the Viking landers.

NASA has discovered strong evidence for ancient life on Mars, a potentially groundbreaking finding for humanity. In this ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

NASA’s ultimate mission to discover if life exists on Mars has been effectively cancelled. A new US spending bill released ...

In November 2011, NASA launched a space mission to explore the planet Mars through a vehicle known as Curiosity. After a long ...

Black swans entered the public vernacular in 2007 with the publication of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Black swans are unexpected events, outliers ...

NASA’s long record of Martian exploration has trained the public to expect a steady stream of images and data from the Red ...

NASA's latest update on Perseverance shows how the Mars rover is holding up after five years and what that means for future ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery. While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – the crater where the rover first landed on the Red Planet in February 2021 ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.