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NASA has successfully commanded the Mars Odyssey spacecraft to reboot its computer.

Did NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander find evidence of liquid water before it froze to death?

NASA has postponed a risky move to restart the computer on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

NASA engineers are trying to figure out why an orbiting Mars spacecraft went into safe mode this week.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has promoted Jeff Gearhart to general counsel and named former counsel Tom Mars as chief administrative officer.

Google Inc. is launching a new version of Google Earth that will let users explore the oceans, view images of Mars and watch the Earth’s surface change over...

Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are trying to figure out why the Mars rover Spirit is acting erratically.

A surprising and mysterious belch of methane gas on Mars hints at possible microbial life underground, but also could come from changes in rocks, a new NASA study...

An orbiting spacecraft has found minerals on Mars that suggest the planet was once mild and wet enough to support life, according to scientists. The Mars...

An orbiting spacecraft has discovered a key mineral in bedrock on the Martian surface that suggests the planet might once have had an environment hospitable to life,...

NASA is delaying launch of a giant Mars robotic mission that is hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, the space agency said Thursday.

A NASA insider says the space agency is delaying launch of a giant Mars robotic mission.

Defying the global economic crisis, European ministers are pledging euro10 billion ($12.8 billion) to an ambitious list of 30 space missions, including one to put a...

Europe’s space agency on Tuesday began mapping out how to share the cost of an ambitious slate of future missions, including a robotic Mars rover and satellites...

The time-traveling detective show “Life on Mars” picked up its second International Emmy for best drama series, leading a British sweep of seven of the 10...

NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket...

You may have seen dramatic pictures of the surface of Mars, sent back by some camera-toting space probe. But have you ever wondered what it sounds like up there?

Despite a nasty Martian dust storm, Spirit lives.