NASA has released two NASA Interim Directives (NIDs) updating the agency's requirements for robotic and human missions traveling to the Earth's Moon, and human missions traveling to Mars.
The summer race to land a space probe on Mars is off to a hot start.
A research team from Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) conducted the first study of area and elevation changes for all Alpine glaciers over a period of 14 years.
Mars may now be considered a barren, icy desert but did Earth's nearest neighbour once harbour life?
The six-decade space race to explore Mars has led to some 40 missions, at least half of which have been successful, and still the Red Planet inspires new adventures.
The oil-rich United Arab Emirates has built a nuclear power programme and sent a man to space, and now plans to join another elite club by sending a probe to Mars.
Later this summer, NASA is launching the Mars Perseverance Rover to the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 Mission.
NASA's InSight lander has been using its robotic arm to help the heat probe known as the "mole" burrow into Mars.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has started a road trip that will continue through the summer across roughly a mile (1.6 kilometers) of terrain.
This video shows a simulated flight over Korolev Crater. The 82-kilometre-wide impact crater is filled with water ice all year round.
Compared with our own planet Earth, Mars might seem like a "dead" planet, but even there, the wind blows and the ground moves.
China's first Mars rover should launch later this month, authorities said Wednesday, as the country races to catch up with the US dominance of space.
Southwest Research Institute scientists have increased the speed and accuracy of a laboratory-scale instrument for determining the age of planetary specimens onsite.
NASA has stepped closer to allowing remote onboard computers to direct the search for life on other planets.
Muddy rains produced by giant impacts into a primordial glaciated Mars may have played a crucial role in the emplacement of kilometers-thick mudstones on Mars…
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will travel with the Perseverance rover through 314 million miles (505 million kilometers) of interplanetary space to get to Mars.
