NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing drone navigation software in Death Valley to prepare future rotorcraft for Mars’ ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

While Mars doesn't directly control Earth's climate, its gravity subtly influences our planet's orbit and tilt over vast ...

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

Nasa’s mission teams use extreme environments to trial equipment and procedures for future lunar and planetary exploration.

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Earth’s toughest bacteria could turn Martian dust into building materials. Could these microbes be the key to our survival on ...

Mars Express has found a unique butterfly-shaped crater on Mars. This formation resulted from a space rock hitting at a low ...

Mars Express orbiter captures a slightly elliptical crater measuring roughly 12 miles (20 kilometres) east to wes ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through ...