Congress has handed NASA a rare reprieve, rejecting deep proposed cuts and approving a budget that keeps much of the agency’s ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

NASA is spending this week trying to rouse a veteran Mars orbiter that has not answered a single call in more than a month, a ...

MAVEN has remained silent since Dec. 6 despite repeated attempts to contact it, according to NASA. As part of the recovery ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return program faces opposition from planetary scientists following proposed cancellation, with concerns raised over Perseverance samples, future Mars missions, and international ...

A new report lays out the objectives for a crewed mission to Mars. Plus, an update on the NASA mission to survey the asteroid ...

Researchers worked out the ocean's size by finding how high the water level got in the Solar System’s largest canyon system.