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

For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that led to biology, or when the first primitive life forms appeared.

The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet's climate to support life as we know it — has long belonged to the realm of science fiction. But a new study argues that it's time to take ...

The Chinese-led research team based its findings on seismic readings from NASA's InSight lander on Mars, which recorded more than 1,300 marsquakes before shutting down in 2022. The spacecraft landed ...

First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously, its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warner Bros. “Red Planet” has returned. The big budget sci-fi movie from 2000, which starred Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom ...

The groundbreaking discovery points to the possibility of past life on Mars. A 3.5-billion-year old rock discovered on the Red Planet is "the closest we've come to discovering ancient life on Mars," ...

NASA's sharp-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just notched a big milestone. MRO's HiRISE ("High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment") camera has now snapped 100,000 photos of the surface of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists revealed Wednesday that Mars’ innermost core appears to be a solid hunk of metal just like Earth’s. The Chinese-led research team based their findings on seismic ...

Like Earth, Mars once had a strong magnetic field that shielded its thick atmosphere from the solar wind. But now only the magnetic imprint remains. What's long baffled scientists, though, is why this ...