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 ...

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

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

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

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly more than that for our moon, posing potential challenges for future crewed ...

In 2025, astronomers revealed nearby exoplanets, a rare interstellar comet, possible biosignatures on Mars, and an ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover will go dark for a few weeks due to a conjunction between Earth and Mars, blocking communication ...

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 ...

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

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) officially went into service above the Red Planet in November 2006. The spacecraft ...