Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

Alyssa Carson from Baton Rouge already goes by the callsign 'NASA Blueberry' - despite not yet having an affiliation with NASA ...

Scientists have spent decades scouring the Martian surface for any signs of life. Now, a photo snapped by NASA 's Curiosity rover has sparked speculation that the hunt might be over.

A warm afternoon on ancient Mars lasted about as long as a Silicon Valley internship. That is the sobering conclusion of a ...

Without enough liquid water on the surface, a planet's atmosphere can become choked with carbon dioxide, raising temperatures ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

Mars is by far the most Earth-like planet in the solar system… but that's not saying much. We know that Mars once hosted oceans, rivers, lakes, streams. It had a thick, carbon-dioxide-rich ...

Elon Musk warns that the sun's expansion will eventually destroy all life on Earth, emphasizing the urgent need to colonize ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding of the Red Planet. The spacecraft was designed and built by the Jet ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A new study ...