April 2, 2019 Mars may have significant amounts of water underneath the surface In 2018, scientists made the incredible discovery that they had found a "stable body of liquid water" on Mars. A new study takes that one step further and suggests that the water thought to be responsible for dark streaks on the Red Planet may be coming from well below the surface.
April 2, 2019 Life-boosting sign confirmed on Mars The mystery of methane on Mars may finally be solved as scientists confirmed the presence of the life-indicating gas on the Red Planet as well as where it might have come from.
March 27, 2019 Ancient asteroid strikes on Mars may have 'produced key ingredients for life' Scientists have looked far and wide for life in the universe, but a new study suggests that ancient asteroid impacts may have "produced key ingredients for life" right next door — Mars.
March 25, 2019 'Mars on Earth' comes to Google If you've ever wanted to know what it's like to live on Mars, Google will take you there for free.
March 20, 2019 A weird powder puzzle on the Martian moon Phobos may be solved The eccentric orbit of the Martian moon Phobos could drive the flow of powder across the moon's surface, a new study finds, shedding light on Phobos' mysterious origins.
March 18, 2019 Space orbiter spots 'hairy blue spider' on Mars David Bowie sang about his sci-fi persona Ziggy Stardust performing with the Spiders from Mars, and now it turns out there's a "spider" on Mars after all.
March 14, 2019 Here's what NASA's Opportunity rover saw before 'lights out' A set of newly released photos shows what NASA's Mars rover Opportunity was looking at just before the killer dust storm hit.
March 12, 2019 Trump's 2020 NASA budget will take US from Moon to Mars, agency chief says NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine praised the agency's 2020 budget proposal from the Trump administration today (March 11), describing how the budget will help the agency reach the moon, and then continue on to Mars.
March 12, 2019 NASA is finally funding a Mars sample return mission, but details are slim President Donald Trump's NASA budget request for the 2020 fiscal year includes funding for a Mars sample return mission that could launch as soon as 2026, the space agency's chief Jim Bridenstine said today (March 11).
