Elon Musk called Mars colonization "life insurance" for humanity in a Fox News interview, warning that Earth will eventually ...

SEE ALSO: 6 scientists are living like they're on Mars for the next 8 months Scientists working with the space agency have narrowed down a list of possible landing sites to the final three.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured what’s believed to be the first orbital image of the Curiosity rover ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured two swirling dust devils in January on the surface of Mars after summitting the Jezero ...

“We don’t have the luxury like we do at Mars of picking the landing site beforehand, mapping it out as much as we possibly can,” Johnson says. JPL’s Vision Compute Element will perform a ...

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben Tutolo, a University of Calgary associate professor of Earth, Energy, and ...

In the wake of SpaceX’s successful rocket landing, some of the company’s most ardent fans are guessing at the shape of the biggest thing to come: the Mars ...

In a study co-authored by a Texas A&M University scientist, researchers have revealed new insights into the geological history of Mars's Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA's Perseverance rover.

Its landing site is near Mars’ equator on a flat, smooth plain called Elysium Planitia. The craft deposited a seismometer on ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a haunting rock formation on Mars that looks unsettlingly like a skull. Dubbed "Skull Hill," the jet-black outcrop is so bizarre and out of place that even ...

The Astrogeology Science Center, which has helped astronauts and robots reach other worlds safely, is facing a substantial number of job reductions. By Matthew Phelan An office in an obscure ...

Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic processes that led to ...