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 ...

On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab. Everything is wired together so well that you rarely think about the ...

Scientists confirm that clocks on Mars run faster than on Earth and will change global space navigation in the future ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

In 2024, NASA awarded Rocket Lab another contract to study alternative concepts for the Mars Sample Return, which aimed to bring samples collected by the Perseverance rover back to Earth. That mission ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go beneath the surface,... The core of Mars looks like Earth’s. What makes the ...

Aluminium-rich pebbles found in the Jezero Crater indicate that Mars was far from a cold, icy planet billions of years ago, ...

Stephen Kane, a professor of planetary astrophysics at UC Riverside, was skeptical when he read recent studies that showed the gravitational pull from Mars being connected to Earth’s long-term climate ...