Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three ...

Curiosity has detected a surprising variety of organic molecules on Mars, including compounds tied to the chemistry of life.

NASA has abruptly lost contact with a key spacecraft circling Mars, cutting off a scientific workhorse that has spent years listening to the planet’s thin atmosphere and relaying data from the surface ...

Study of extreme environments on Earth, along with exploration of the lifeless surface of the moon, can help us understand ...

Finding life on Mars might be closer than we thought. NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded promising data from the Red Planet, ...

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

mars sitting on a field of stars - Eyeem Mobile Gmbh/Getty Images NASA has been working toward one of its most exciting and ambitious Mars missions – its goal of putting humans on the Red Planet – for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its ...

Researchers identified a species that can survive radiation, extreme heat and simulated Martian soil, posing a new challenge ...

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...