While gathering information about Mars' atmosphere and mapping the planet's surface in 1972, ... Nevada in the top secret military base known as Area 51.

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

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.

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped its first images of web-like "boxwork" features on the surface of Mars. The zig-zagging ...

UChicago-led analysis of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why planet was likely harsh desert for most ...

Mars isn’t a bright, fire-engine red, but the iron oxide in its rocks makes it appear redder than other planets, especially ...

Astronomers may have found the perfect Mars base location, and it's right next to a huge deposit of frozen water.

To be sure, Mars likely hosted some kind of water on the surface between 3.7 billion and 4.1 billion years ago, when Earth and the rest of the solar system were still young. But how exactly the ...

Matthew Shindell, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, ...

While gathering information about Mars' atmosphere and mapping the planet's surface in 1972 ... One of them lies just 65 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada in the top secret military base known as Area ...