One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

While the strange object may look like a book with a single page frozen mid-turn, it is in fact just a rock — and a small one at that. The charming little book-rock measures just 1 inch (2.5 ...

Despite being known as the Red Planet, Mars shows off its swirling yellows, oranges and browns in a new satellite photo from ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...

Mars looks like it’s about to make a U-turn in the night sky – at least, from Earth it looks that way. Since Dec. 7, 2024, the red planet has been making its westerly retrograde. But on Monday ...

NASA's Curiosity rover finds strange rock formations on Mars. These look like spiderwebs. The rover spots these on Mount ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

What life on Mars would probably look like – and it’s not little green men. Scientists have not given up hope of finding life, María Rosa Pino Otín writes . Wednesday 19 February 2025 10:16 GMT.

Here are some of our favorite objects on Mars that look like they don't belong on a dead and dusty planet. Many of these are a result of pareidolia — the tendency for humans to seek familiar ...