Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover, accidentally cracked open a seemingly ordinary rock, revealing an unexpected yellow substance ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

If you've spent any time perusing the carousel of raw images from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, you might have stumbled across an odd subject: a tiny, intricate maze etched into a small plate ...

Perseverance Mars rover becomes 1st spacecraft to spot auroras from the surface of another world Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin.

An unusual payload Image Credits:ispace Tenacious was designed to be both small and light, weighing about five kilograms — half the weight of NASA’s Sojourner Mars rover.

More information: Erica Luzzi et al, Geomorphological Evidence of Near‐Surface Ice at Candidate Landing Sites in Northern Amazonis Planitia, Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2025).

It was the latest in a series of setbacks for founder Elon Musk 's hopes to send a mission to Mars as soon as next year and NASA 's plans to fly astronauts back to the moon in 2027.

Mars orbiter that launched from Florida captures 1st-ever pic of volcano above clouds Known as Arsia Mons, the volcano on Mars dwarfs Earth’s tallest volcano, Mauna Loa in Hawaii.

Lights on Mars! NASA rover photographs visible auroras on Red Planet for the first time Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin.