Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean billions of years ago ...

A rover recently captured sounds of lightning crackling on Mars, over a decade after scientists uncovered the first evidence ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

Mars-like shock and chemical stress reveal ribonucleoprotein condensates as a key survival mechanism in yeast. Life on Mars, ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

Plans to retrieve Marian rocks that may contain signs of extraterrestrial life appear to have been abandoned by the US ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, located in the Arsia Mons region — one of Mars’ giant volcanoes — could ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ones for the first time. Researchers mapped 16 massive drainage basins ...