Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

W hile the northern hemisphere of Earth makes its way through winter, the southern hemisphere of Mars is reaching the end of ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

Scientists have discovered 26 previously unknown bacterial species living inside NASA’s ultra-sterile spacecraft assembly ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.

For centuries – maybe millennia – humans have wondered how Mars gets its red hue, but a recent study has some answers.

Research conducted by two physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US reveals that ...

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things — and it does them, in the immortal words of President Kennedy, because they are hard. NASA’s most ambitious planetary project yet is Mars Sample ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...