The Latest Breaking News from Mars

World Space Week 2025 (Oct. 4–10) explores the theme "Living in Space," with global events highlighting the challenges and future of life beyond Earth.

Recently, Nasa revealed exciting details of new findings from Mars. Scientists have discovered tiny patterns of unusual minerals in the clay-rich rocks on the edge of Jezero Crater – an ancient lake once fed by Martian river systems, and the exploration site of the Nasa Perseverance Rover.

How Ridley Scott's third sci-fi masterpiece proved there is life on Mars after all, by telling a deeply human, and oddly familiar story.

Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of a more curious sort. A race to be the first to send various objects up there. But why?

The interstellar object will hurtle within 18 million miles (29 million kilometres) of the Red Planet

ESA spacecraft orbiting Mars and monitoring the Sun are stepping in to track 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar comet hidden behind the Sun until December 2025, offering scientists a once-in-a-lifetime research opportunity.

NASA has reported possible biosignatures in a Mars rock, but delays and funding woes cloud its sample return mission. Could China's Tianwen-3 step in and deliver samples from the site itself?

The Fault In Our Stars actress rescued her two cats, Pharrah and Bear, a year and a half ago and said they are like her ’emotional support animals’.

What about those previously studied plumes of methane and meteorites potentially stuffed with the fossils of Martian microbes?