Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking missions to Mars made groundbreaking attempts to detect life on the Red Planet. While the missions initially returned negative results, a new study published in the ...

Using high-resolution imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the AI analyzed the bedrock and boulder fields. It ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...

In a breathtaking new view from the Mars Express mission, ESA has released an image of Flaugergues Crater, captured in a flyover video that provides a bird’s-eye perspective of the Martian landscape.

I've read that the planned crewed Mars missions will take six months or two years to arrive. Which is it? Could a longer trip be due to the heavy payload? Our rovers took only eight to nine months to ...

Like Earth, Mars is surrounded by an ionosphere—the part of its upper atmosphere where radiation from the sun knocks electrons off of atoms and molecules, creating charged particles. The Martian ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released today (Dec. 9) from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has achieved a major first by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence rather than human operators. Credit: NASA. An AI just ...