A new study identifies Amazonis Planitia, particularly the AP-8 region, as a promising landing site on Mars. This location ...

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth.

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for ...

When we picture Mars today, we see a cold, lifeless desert, battered by dust storms and cosmic radiation. But billions of years ago, the Red Planet told a very different story. Mars was once a warm, ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why Earth stayed warm and alive while Mars turned cold and dry. Both planets began ...

On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, ...

With the FAA’s recent approval of SpaceX’s new splashdown area, the company will be allowed to litter larger regions of the ...

Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a ...

Harmful cuts” jeopardize the agency’s mission, more than 280 current and former personnel contend in a scathing dissent.