A 25-year-old Philadelphia woman won the $300,000 first prize in a NASA competition to design food systems to improve how astronauts eat in space, and eventually how they will eat on Mars, the space ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars ...

Since 2021, NASA 's Perseverance rover has explored Jezero crater, a 28-mile-wide basin on Mars where rivers once fed a lake.

Learn more about the Perseverance Rover as it traverses the Martian landscape looking for signs of extinct life.

Uncrewed vehicles like the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers (as well as orbiters) have for years captured stunning photos of Mars. Here are the latest.

NASA's Perseverance rover found igneous rocks in Jezero Crater, revealing Mars' water history. Rocks show signs of water ...

Perseverance has reached another important point in its Mars exploration, giving the rover a new area to investigate.

Winners were announced on Thursday for a NASA competition on feeding future astronauts on Mars. NASA received 113 entries ...

We’ve yet to find any definitive evidence that there’s biological life on present-day Mars, but to say it’s a dead planet isn’t exactly accurate. Since the first Viking ...

Astronauts may be able to arrive on Mars with hearts strong enough to handle the planet’s gravity after months in space if they keep exercising along the way. A study co-led by a UT Southwestern ...

The scientists were especially intrigued by strong signals of carbonate minerals detected by Mars orbiters. On Earth, carbonates frequently form in shallow ocean and lake environments capable of ...

Eligible bidders needed prior NASA funding for a Mars Sample Return study and a proposal featuring a separately launched ...