Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate the future landing site for NASA’s ...

Is there life on Mars, or at least, was there? That question should be answered in the coming years with a host of probes arriving at the Red Planet. Perseverance NASA's 1-tonne Perseverance probe is ...

After an extensive review process and passing a major development milestone, NASA is ready to proceed with final design and construction of its next Mars rover, currently targeted to launch in the ...

Right now, NASA’s Mars Exploration Program is planning to send a rover to the red planet sometime in July or August of next year. There’s just one problem: NASA doesn’t know what to call it. In an ...

With Elon Musk-esque dreams of promoting the exploration and eventual settlement on Mars, the Cornell Mars Rover project team crafts rovers designed to analyze rocks for signs of life and for ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...