Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

W hile the northern hemisphere of Earth makes its way through winter, the southern hemisphere of Mars is reaching the end of ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

For centuries – maybe millennia – humans have wondered how Mars gets its red hue, but a recent study has some answers.

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly more than that for our moon, posing potential challenges for future crewed ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.

Mars often feels finished. Mapped, scanned, labelled in broad strokes. Yet every so often, something unsettles that sense of ...

Research conducted by two physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US reveals that ...

Mars may be tens of millions of kilometers away, but for planetary scientists, the most revealing rehearsal space sits in the North Atlantic. Iceland’s mix of ice, fire and wind offers a rare ...

Mars is often described as silent, barren, and still. But beneath its dusty surface and cold skies, something unusual has ...

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things — and it does them, in the immortal words of President Kennedy, because they are hard. NASA’s most ambitious planetary project yet is Mars Sample ...