We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

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NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

This oblique perspective view was generated using a digital terrain model and Mars Express data gathered over orbits 18042 ...

From arachnid-like formations and mysterious blobs to an underground ocean and a giant volcano, here are our 10 favorite ...

Ever since the discovery of methane on Mars, scientists have wondered if the Red Planet might harbor life. Now, researchers ...

Mars’ strangely small mass still puzzles planetary scientists. Definitive answers as to why are still hard to come by.

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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

NASA has been committed to the exploration of planet Mars, and now scientists have decided to use nuclear fission energy as ...