What if billions of years ago, the Red Planet had rain, snow, and even rivers that carved out landscapes much like those we ...

Texas Senator John Cornyn announced a $1 billion MARS Act to upgrade NASA's Johnson Space Center to better support ...

Studies like this, he emphasized, are limited as they are based on a theoretical Red Planet surface and do not aim to exactly match what is seen in today's channel networks. If Mars was "warm and ...

When those particles reached the planet, they triggered ... in vibrant sheets of green, red, and violet. But with no global magnetic field to shape them, Mars experiences more chaotic, shattered ...

Colonizing Mars and terraforming it to be a comfortable future home for humanity is quite the challenge. How would we go about it and how close is close enough for our purposes? How would we let life ...

BEIJING/CANBERRA: Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the Red Planet: a vast reservoir of liquid water, locked deep in ...

The fact that Mars has auroras at all is a bit of a head-scratcher. The Red Planet has little atmosphere left to speak of and longer possesses a global magnetic field, unlike Earth. The planet ...

Mars is one of the only other places NASA know life may have existed in the solar system. The Red Planet is the fourth from the sun and is the seventh largest planet. As the planet is dry ...

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the "Mission to Modernize Astronautic Resources for Space (MARS) Act" on Tuesday ... plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond ...