Five decades later, Nasa’s Viking 1 mission remains among the greatest landmarks in planetary science, a model for every ...

NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a century later, that trail ...

Nasa's Curiosity rover discovered ancient sandstorm evidence in Gale Crater. Delicate ripple-like layers reveal a single ...

(NEW YORK) — Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its ...

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the world lost its water.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - NASA announced on Tuesday the end of the mission of its MAVEN spacecraft, which spent more than 11 years orbiting Mars to study the atmosphere of Earth's planetary ...

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could crater existing Red Planet research missions.

We know Mars to be many things: dusty, cold, and missing a global magnetic field. In a recent discovery that baffled scientists, a space weather phenomenon previously associated with powerful magnetic ...

The spacecraft aced its encounter with Mars. Now, mission scientists are studying a trove of data from the flyby in ...

NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

In summer 2026, NASA will commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the most consequential milestones in planetary ...

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) was first launched in November 2013 NASA/GSFC NASA announced that the agency lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) ...