When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars by a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket. ESCAPADE will study how the "solar wind ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

The way this document is written suggests that when NASA scores bidders for the Mars Telecommunications Network, the addition ...

Valkyrie, a humanoid robot that was previously trained to assist NASA with Mars mission preparations, will soon return to the ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

For a while, NASA's future looked to be on shaky ground, but this new proposal seems like a fresh vote of confidence.

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) was first launched in November 2013 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...