NASA's Perseverance rover continues to surprise the scientific community with its discoveries on the surface of Mars.

NASA's Curiosity rover photographed remnants of rippling waves in an ancient Martian lakebed, proving that the Red Planet had ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

One of the primary mission objectives is to search for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, and igneous rocks and regolith examined in the area have also given insight into a time in the planet's ...

NASA's Perseverance collects the “Silver Mountain” sample in Jezero, revealing geological secrets and possible traces of ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

That feature is Athabasca Valles, a system of valleys carved into volcanic plains on Mars. The Athabasca Valles system offers key insights into the history of water on the Red Planet, and its ...

“Some models have suggested that Mars’ north was struck by one or more giant impacts early in its history, effectively creating the northern lowlands as a large depression,” he explained.

Because Mars lacks plate tectonics, unlike Earth, the surface seen today is similar to that of long ago, making its history of lakes and rivers that much more intriguing. "It makes a really great ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — A new study explores how variations in Mars' crustal thickness during its ancient history may have influenced the planet's magmatic evolution and ... New Paper Examines the ...