With its reddish-hued surface and surroundings, Mars has more than earned its colorful nickname. But how would the Red Planet appear under clear-blue Earth skies? Thanks to a NASA rover wandering the ...

Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red ...

CO₂ ice blocks on Mars may dig gullies as they slide and sublimate in the thin atmosphere. In lab experiments, scientists recreated these eerie, worm-like movements under Martian conditions. The ...

Fragments left behind from massive space debris that struck Mars about 4.5 billion years ago are believed to be buried deep beneath the planet’s surface, according to new research published in the ...

Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...

WASHINGTON — A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it ...

For more than 20 years, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter has been imaging the surface of the Red Planet. One region, in particular, continues to fascinate the Mars Express team, ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has seemingly managed to snap images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it made its flyby of ...

Scientists have just made a fascinating discovery on Mars: a new mineral called ferric hydroxysulfate. The name is a mouthful, but the implications it brings are exciting. This particular mineral ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a haunting rock formation on Mars that looks unsettlingly like a skull. Dubbed "Skull Hill," the jet-black outcrop is so bizarre and out of place that even ...