By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 03/25/2013 03:15 PM EDT on SPACE.com WASHINGTON — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has already achieved its main miss...
By: Mike Wall Published: 03/13/2013 10:18 AM EDT on SPACE.com The discovery that ancient Mars could have supported microbes raises the tantalizing...
At a press conference Tuesday, scientists revealed NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered signs that ancient Mars had the essential elements necessary f...
By: Rod Pyle, SPACE.com Contributor Published: 02/25/2013 04:24 PM EST on SPACE.com LOS ANGELES — While Mars was likely a more hospitable plac...
By Irene Klotz Wed Jan 9, 2013 2:52pm EST CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A hardy bacteria common on Earth was surprisingly adaptive to Mars-li...
Three-and-a-half billion years is a long time — after all, humans have only been around for about 2.3 million years. But scientists working in Weste...
Although Curiosity is not designed to verify life, we are left to wonder -- if Curiosity did discover life on Mars, what would be the impact of that discovery to the general public and to the future of human and robotic exploration of Mars?
Mars One founder Bas Lansdorp joined HuffPost Live Tuesday to talk about his goal to have humans living on Mars by the year 2023. Lansdorp told host J...
By: Mike Wall Published: 11/20/2012 01:35 PM EST on SPACE.com NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has apparently made a discovery "for the history bo...
By: Mike Wall Published: 11/02/2012 02:42 PM EDT on SPACE.com NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has detected no methane in its first analyses of the M...
By: Leonard David Published: 10/23/2012 05:58 PM EDT on SPACE.com There’s growing buzz about data gleaned by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, specifi...
By: TechNewsDaily Staff Published: 10/19/2012 01:54 PM EDT on TechNewsDaily Scientific maverick J. Craig Venter says he is confident there is life...
It's a question that has plagued scientists for decades: Is there, or has there ever been, life on Mars? While the answer to that question has ofte...
By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 09/10/2012 11:04 AM EDT on SPACE.com In the past decade, astronomers have observed clay materials on Mars that see...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 09/02/2012 08:53 AM EDT on SPACE.com A Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a pe...
Finding life on Mars would be an amazing discovery, one that I truly hope we realize -- not to alleviate the mundane trappings of our existence, but more so to bring their lessons into sharper focus.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — Hailing NASA's "mind-boggling" Mars landing of the Curiosity rover, President Barack Obama urged the scientists operating...
By sending space probes to the edge of the solar system, by collecting Moon rocks and comet dust, by landing probes on Mars to dig for soils and search for signs of life, we are in constant exchange with outer space.
The latest Mars rover, Curiosity, will land on the Red Planet in a few days, if all goes well. Should Curiosity find evidence of past life on Mars, allow me to preempt what will certainly be a rewrite of history on the part of the world's major religions.
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., July 29 (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover was on its final approach to the red planet on Sunday, head...
Bored with talk about building a lunar colony? A Dutch startup that goes by the name Mars One says it will establish a colony on Mars by 2023, accordi...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/30/2012 01:17 PM EDT on SPACE.com A meteorite that fell to Earth more than 40 years ago is helping scientists un...
By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 05/03/2012 02:06 PM EDT on SPACE.com Beneath their rugged exterior, some Martian rocks could be hiding life, sci...
Scientists puzzling over some odd dark spots on Mars may finally have shone a light on the mystery. In a new paper, published March 26 in the acade...
The time has come, from both a scientific and exploration standpoint, for NASA to embark on a robotic mission to bring rock and soil samples back from Mars, but the Agency -- and the administration -- appear to be shying away from the challenge.
