Mars' north pole contains a large ice cap made up of many layers of frozen water. Like ice cores on Earth, those layers offer a tantalizing record of climate on Mars over the past several million ...

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 ...

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For half a century, something has been darkening one of the largest plains on Mars. The European Space Agency revealed in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: There was just one problem: The orbiter would never reach Mars. Superficially, everything seemed to be going according to plan. Lockheed Martin was ...

The Martian polar vortex exhibits significantly lower temperatures (approximately 40°C colder) within its core compared to the surrounding atmosphere, a phenomenon observed through the use of the ...

First results from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provide provocative new evidence that there were diverse watery habitats capable of supporting life on Mars eons ago. MRO is also finding evidence ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the exploration of Mars. The United States, Soviet Union and China are the only three countries to land a spacecraft on Mars. There have been nine successful US Mars landings: ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars' atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...