China plans to complete a new-generation geologic map of Mars by the end of 2028, aiming to reconstruct the red planet's ...

Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open. As engineers refine maps of potential Mars landing sites, one location ...

For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a specific region that could finally turn that ambition into a practical flight ...

South Korea aims to make a Mars landing by 2045, President Yoon Suk Yeol said Thursday, outlining plans to spend about $70 billion over the coming decades on space exploration. There's a reason Jezero ...

To land on the right foot on the Red Planet, European engineers have been dropping a skeleton of the four-legged ExoMars descent module at various speeds and heights on simulated Martian surfaces. The ...

Life on Mars and How to Find It” by Steven Benner went on sale for the first time at a symposium on Mars at William & Mary.

On Friday, Sept. 18, William & Mary’s Sadler Center will host a symposium honoring the 50th anniversary of the Mars Viking ...

PASADENA, California (Reuters) - The Mars rover Curiosity, on a quest for signs the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life, closed in on fringe of the Martian atmosphere on Sunday for a ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — NASA’s newest rover, the massive Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, is less than two months away from plunging into the thin atmosphere of the Red Planet — a harrowing seven-minute ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Half a century after first putting hardware down on Mars, NASA is looking to explore the Red Planet's skies. On July 20, 1976, the ...