NASA’s MAVEN mission has discovered a rare atmospheric effect on Mars, revealing how solar storms may be reshaping and ...
The water needed for sustaining life could have lasted much longer on Mars than thought ...
While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of looks like a giant reptile had shed its skin across the planet’s surface.
NASA's Curiosity rover captured this Mars selfie in 2020. If NASA’s Curiosity rover could mail a postcard from Mars, its latest would probably read, “Dear Earth—Crazy landscape! Check out these wild ...
Mars is often described as silent, barren, and still. But beneath its dusty surface and cold skies, something unusual has been happening, something that no spacecraft had ever sensed before. As NASA’s ...
For years, scientists staring at Mars through the eyes of orbiting spacecraft noticed something strange: a mysterious signal in the light spectrum that didn’t match any known mineral. That puzzling ...
A striped rock that looks out of place in its surroundings on the slopes of the inner wall of Jezero crater has scientists excited about what it may reveal about the Red Planet's history. NASA's ...
Flow-like features on Mars are a source of debate among scientists. While some experts say they are likely produced by liquid water or brine on the Red Planet's surface today, other investigations ...
NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into Red Planet rock surfaces to expose material that could hold clues to the planet's ancient environment ...
This intriguing aerial shot of a frosty dune-field on Mars — recently posted on the University of Arizona’s HiRISE site — just begs the question: Could man (or woman) ever ski Mars? There are some ...