NASA's Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z camera captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 47th Mars flight. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Terminal Shut ...

For about six months, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork, low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured images of hilly terrain on Mars, described by scientists as resembling spiderwebs from orbit, which provide clues about the planet’s watery past.

Thinking about food systems in deep space likely brings to mind something like The Martian where an astronaut is scratching ...

Scientists think groundwater once moved through fractures in bedrock which resulted in the infamous stone latticework.

Water ice on Mars, bubbling gas on a distant star, a snow-covered island, and a pre-planetary nebula are featured this week. Plus, a look back at an image of Mars taken by the Dawn spacecraft during a ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

Dining on the moon or Mars might seem like a fantasy reserved for science fiction, but researchers are investigating how it could become a reality.

Searching for past or present life on Mars is the sole driving force behind every mission we send to the red planet, from orbiters to landers to rovers. However, there remains a concern in the ...

Maybe David Bowie was right with his spiders from Mars? Space scientists say they have spotted a hilly landscape that looks ...

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent six months exploring the site to investigate if they are a clue to the presence of water.