NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a striking new image of massive, wind-carved sand formations known as "megaripples" ...

A giant collision in Mars’ early history created a global magma ocean and buried large fragments of debris deep within the ...

New research published in the journal Science reveals the red planet's mantle preserves a record of its violent beginnings.

Get ready to explore the Red Planet — our dusty, windswept neighbor that's captured human imagination for centuries. Mars is ...

Mars' tumultuous history saw continent-sized swaths of its crust and mantle liquefied into vast magma oceans due to the staggering energy released by those ancient impacts.

Its successors will be even bigger and more powerful. In a livestreamed Starship update this past May, Musk said that the ...

When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But ...

Perseverance is exploring Mars’ sandy ripples, strange frozen waves that could reveal how wind still shapes the planet. Along ...

David Alexander, the director of the Rice Space Institute, talks about SpaceX's Starship tests and the eventual goal of going ...

Transmissions between Earth and our own spacecraft could tell us where to look for potential alien transmissions.

Could humans be heading to Mars in the 2030s? Here's how Elon Musk and SpaceX plan to launch Starship on a mission to ...

The budget reconciliation bill enacted in July spelled out this $700 million procurement plan, with the satellite designed to act as a relay for information to and from Mars. The bill doesn't offer ...