For four years, a lone robot sat on the dusty plains of Mars, listening. The InSight lander, a three-legged marvel of ...

Learn how Mars' mantle differs from Earth's and why it seismic signatures of marsquakes act like a time capsule into its past.

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle ...

The Viking missions paved the way for future Mars missions and helped researchers understand the red planet’s climate and ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...

Scientists have discovered that Mars has an interior structure similar to Earth's. Results from NASA's InSight mission ...

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NPR's Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about an innovation in plastic recycling, the link between smartphones and hemorrhoids and what Mars' structure and ice cream have in common.

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Bringing back samples from the Red Planet would help us beat the Chinese, send humans into space and learn about how planets form. Congress, where's the money?

Recent comments by former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver on the Mars 2020 mission require critical examination and correction.