These findings do not confirm past life but indicate Mars once had the right chemistry to support it. We're getting closer ...

While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of ...

Researchers identified a species that can survive radiation, extreme heat and simulated Martian soil, posing a new challenge ...

Finding life on Mars might be closer than we thought. NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded promising data from the Red Planet, ...

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

A dark patch in Mars' Utopia Planitia region has grown significantly since it was first photographed in 1976. Scientists have ...

Scientists believe they found fresh proof of an ancient ocean on Mars in the form of a “bathtub ring” it left after it dried ...

In early 2026, a photo circulated online that claimed to authentically show a blue sunset on Mars. The earliest version of ...

Organic compounds found in a Martian crater contain building blocks of life, according to a new study.

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped a series of peculiar polygons that look suspiciously like giant fossilized reptile scales.

As our book club revisits Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson reflects on imagining a 2026 Mars mission — and how today’s ...