On a bleak stretch of the Colorado Desert in Southern California, a compact four-wheeled rover recently trundled 16 miles (26 ...

A pair of stubborn molecules, prized because they can survive deep time, just passed an important Mars test by failing a very ...

Scientists have found garnet in a Martian meteorite for the first time, raising new questions about what kind of geological ...

An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock from the red planet and, for the first time, ...

Think of dust devils as tiny tornadoes.

Future astronauts heading to the Moon or Mars could eventually produce certain medicines using plants grown onboard their ...

Viking 1 kicked off the search for Martian life 50 years ago. Now NASA’s shifting priorities are putting the quest in limbo.