Mars

Starting next year, scientists will get their first look deep below the surface of Mars.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet.

A new scenario seeking to explain how Mars' putative oceans came and went over the last 4 billion years implies that the oceans formed several hundred million years earlier and were not as deep as once thought.

Elements found in the mantles of Earth and Mars could be indicative of giant impacts early in the histories of both planets.

Asteroids and comets appear to be a much more important supplier of organic molecules on Mars than expected.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has conducted the first test of a new drilling technique on the Red Planet since its drill stopped working reliably.

NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, talks to author Andy Weir about his science fiction novels that take place in the near-future on the Moon and Mars

NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, talks to author Andy Weir about his science fiction novels that take place in the near-future on the Moon and Mars.

A recent view from Mars orbit of the site where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed on far-northern Mars nearly a decade ago shows that dust has covered some marks of the landing.

NASA's Mars InSight lander team is preparing to ship the spacecraft from Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, where it was built and tested, to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where it will become the first interplanetary mission to launch from the West Coast.