Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery, including a rover that launched from Florida, have been named among Time's best ...

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

For decades, the search for life on Mars has been a story of hints and maybes, of chemical curiosities that stopped just ...

For decades, the case for sending people to Mars has rested on a mix of romance, rivalry, and raw curiosity. Now a cluster of ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Here's what we know.

MAVEN is therefore pretty important to ongoing Mars operations, and working out why it dropped out of communication may help ...

A mudstone sample from Jezero Crater shows textures and minerals that on Earth often form through microbial activity. Scientists caution that nonbiological processes could also explain the features, ...

In 2025, NASA faced unprecedented uncertainty as it grappled with sweeping layoffs, looming budget cuts, and leadership ...