NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered siderite, a carbonate mineral, in Mars’ Gale Crater, offering strong evidence that the ...

The European Space Agency just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic terrain of ...

Mars Express captures images of Acheron Fossae, revealing the Red Planet’s split terrain—ancient cratered highlands and ...

The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war ... scientists have revealed Mars as a dynamic, windblown landscape that could—just maybe—harbor microbial life beneath its rusty surface ...

The rover has been exploring the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater since February 2021 and picking up samples of rock — hoping to find signs of ancient microbial life. open image in gallery A NASA ...

On Mars, swirling columns of dust—known as dust devils—regularly roam the landscape, sometimes colliding in dramatic displays like one recently captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover. In a rare moment, ...

First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously, its ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover reveals stunning new images of another world. Curiosity, a car-sized robotic rover featured in Destination: Mars, landed on the red planet in August 2012. As Curiosity makes ...

Stretching for hundreds of miles along the planet’s equator is the Medusae Fossae Formation, or MFF—a mysterious landscape of wind-shaped ridges ... That’s more water than Earth’s Red Sea holds, ...

Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, is a dry, rocky world. Its famous red color has earned it the nickname the Red Planet. Mars has fascinated people throughout history, and today, it is one of ...