Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to squeeze even more science out of the busy spacecraft as it circles the Red ...

John R. Casani, a longtime Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, project manager and researcher, died at the age of 92 last week. Casani served a central role in many of NASA’s historic deep space ...

When you sat in your high school math class, and your teacher told you how important the subject was in everyday life, did you believe them? As adults, we realize that we actually use math every ...

In what's thought to be 'the first orbital image of the rover mid-drive,' Curiosity can be see making the journey to its next science destination on Mars.

The Medusae Fossae Formation of Mars has ice deposits over 2 miles deep, potentially providing vital water resources for exploration.

This colorized image of the surface of Mars was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The line of three volcanoes is the Tharsis Montes, with Olympus Mons to the northwest. Valles Marineris is to ...

NASA finally figures out what’s up with those “Mars spiders” They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

A mysterious pit on Mars, captured by NASA 's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), has reignited interest in the potential of these features to support future human missions to the Red Planet.

The discovery of frost near Mars' equator changed what planetary scientists thought they knew about the Red Planet's climate.