On May 15, NASA’s Psyche used Mars as a slingshot on its lengthy journey to the main asteroid belt — and captured remarkable photos along the way.

With every photo and video that comes back of Mars, we're getting a clearer picture of the Red Planet: its surface, its ...

Right now, a spacecraft named Psyche is headed to its namesake asteroid, 16 Psyche. The theory is that 16 Psyche, which lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may be made of precious ...

(NEW YORK) — Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its ...

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, better known as MAVEN, has slipped into an unnerving silence just as it finished a rare close look at an interstellar visitor sweeping through the ...

The Psyche probe, launched in October 2023 on its way to the metallic asteroid it will study, recently performed a flyby of Mars to take advantage of its gravitational pull and continue its trajectory ...

NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft will experience a harrowing few minutes on 25 May when it hits Mars’s atmosphere and attempts to land safely on the surface – without any airbags to cushion its fall. Phoenix ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is preparing for a “hair-raising” entry into orbit around the Red Planet on 10 March, mission managers say. If successful, the spacecraft will spend seven months ...

The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday that it would extend its Mars probe mission, now in its fifth year, for an additional three, underlining the oil-rich state's space ambitions. The UAE's ...

Mars exploration depends on both orbiters and landers working together, with satellites watching missions from above as ...

NASA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Viking 1, the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and begin exploring ...