The long-running MAVEN orbiter has been declared unrecoverable, closing a Mars project that lasted far beyond its original ...

The first journal article about clouds identified by participants of the Cloudspotting on Mars project has been accepted for publication and is now available online. The article, "The Cloudspotting on ...

NASA announced Thursday its new Mars Sample Receiving Project office, responsible for receiving and curating the first samples returned from the Red Planet, will be located at the agency's Johnson ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and concerns over fallout inside the ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. It Was fall in the Utah desert, and NASA scientist Lindsay Hays was watching the sky. A fat flying saucer soon touched down — a capsule containing bits of ...

What would life be like if Mars were your home? As part of the sixth annual Space Day celebration, NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe announced today the launch of the Imagine Mars project at the opening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans have long imagined life on Mars, though our understanding of the planet has changed a lot. Some of the US's earliest plans ...

Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of ...