This image of Mars shows what it might be like to stand on the Red Planet and look across into the distance. But it also ...

On October 4, 2025, NASA’s Perseverance rover pointed its cameras away from the Martian rocks it was built to study and looked up. In a long-exposure frame captured during Sol 1643, the rover’s ...

Last fall, a Chinese spacecraft orbiting Mars captured images of a comet from another star system, offering scientists a fresh vantage on a rare visitor. In July 2025, telescopes spotted 3I/ATLAS—only ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.

Taking a picture of Mars is not easy. Once light bounces off the planet, it can take between 3 to 22 minutes to travel to Earth — so there aren't truly "live" images of Mars. But on Friday afternoon, ...

Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites—rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together—only 385 or so stones came from the planet Mars. The Martian meteorites found on Earth ...

, Sept. 29 -- generation geologic map of Mars by the end of 2028, with the goal of reconstructing the planet's watery past and developing a Chinese system for dividing Martian geologic time.

We’ve been taking pictures of Mars from space since 1965, when Mariner 4 returned the first pictures of another planet to Earth. Scientists were too anxious to wait for computers to process the first ...

New Delhi, Oct 2 (PTI) Researchers have reconstructed the earliest stages of the formation of Earth and Mars and found that the planets formed in different ways, even though both were born in the same ...