In his prepared remarks, Trump, a longtime backer of U.S.-led space exploration and exploitation, singled out Mars and left ...

With a friend in the White House, the tech billionaire's extraterrestrial ambitions are ready for lift-off - but not ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic ...

The January full moon, also known as the wolf moon, will completely cover the red planet, Mars, but not before the red planet shines as bright as possible near the moon. When will Mars be ...

Mostly, but not always, the second ... How long did previous Mars missions take to reach the Red Planet? Here is an infographic detailing how long it took several historical missions to reach ...

But the red planet’s atmosphere is also too thin ... Nelson said he has not discussed the new Mars sample return proposals with Jared Isaacman, the tech billionaire and spaceflight trailblazer ...

When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps ... This is a particularly fun month for viewing Mars. The red planet reaches opposition — when it's opposite from the sun, with Earth in the ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

People across the United States should be able to see the moon covering Mars before the red planet eventually shows ... A partial eclipse does not have the same effect, but people in some areas ...

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return ... an uncrewed spacecraft land on the Red Planet, collect and cache samples ...

A recently released photo by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows a top-down view of the frosty legume lookalikes, taken to help scientists determine if conditions on the Red Planet ...