A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the surface of Mars are geysers of gas and dust near the planet's south ...

It ended up taking to the Red Planet skies a total of 72 times before it suffered rotor damage, ending its mission. Over the course of its four years on Mars, Perseverance has discovered rocks ...

Aside from Earth, no planet in the solar system captures our imagination quite like Mars. The Red Planet is one of the few places in our cosmic neighborhood where extraterrestrial life may have ...

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 ...

Monstrous dust storms often ravage Mars, engulfing the Red Planet for months. Now, a new study suggests these global storms may be related to a peculiar energy imbalance recently discovered across the ...

These two planets are visible in the southwest sky.Mars is currently at opposition from the Sun. That means the Sun and the "Red Planet" are directly opposite from each other with Earth in the middle.

Mars reaches opposition Jan. 15, standing high in the south at midnight. Just days before, the Moon occults the Red Planet. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly On the 15th, Mars will shine at magnitude ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...

SINGAPORE – Astronomy buffs, undeterred by cloudy skies and rain, managed to catch a glimpse of the planet Mars on the night of Jan 16, when it was at its closest to Earth in 2025. Mars was also ...

The first successful landing of a spacecraft on the moon by the Indian Space Agency, Isro, took place in 2023 with Chaandrayan-3, which was an amazing achievement with a low budget.China landed in ...

President Trump, in his second-term inauguration address, announced his intention to send Americans to Mars. Planet Labs' imaging and analytics technology could play a part in a mission.