A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

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On Jan. 15, the sun in Capricorn will oppose Mars retrograde in Cancer, creating friction between the desire to succeed and ...

A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them ...

We have long been inspired by the idea that life could reside on Mars – human or otherwise. But fiction is getting closer to ...

NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of kidney bean-shaped frozen sand dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere, ...

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the solar system: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled scientists since it was discovered in the 1970s.

A switch to Mars would impact programs such as the moon-focused Space Launch System, a multibillion-dollar rocket that ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...