Today, Mars has launched the Mars Impact Fund, a new enterprise-level philanthropic fund designed to make long-term, targeted cash investments in the communities and systems Mars depends on. The ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

Mars gets its red color from oxidized iron dust, and the oldest myth mistake remains the same: Mars is Roman, while Ares is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people grow up dreaming of becoming astronauts, imagining themselves soaring through space, among the stars, where adventure ...

Searching for past or present life on Mars is the sole driving force behind every mission we send to the red planet, from orbiters to landers to rovers. However, there remains a concern in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Siccar Point, photographed by the Curiosity rover, is near Mars' Gale Crater. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS; Processing & License: Kevin M ...

Earth-based experiments on iron-sulfur alloys thought to comprise the core of Mars reveal details about the planet’s seismic properties for the first time. This information will be compared to ...

Mars has shone red in the night sky for as long as humans have gazed up at the cosmos, fascinating people from the ancient Romans to the present day. "The fundamental question of why Mars is red has ...

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 atmosphere.

When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.” The plot drew me in, with its depiction of the “Genesis Project” – a new ...