After 18 months of exploration, NASA's Perseverance rover continues to uncover strange and mysterious objects on the surface of Mars. In this episode, Perseverance captures a series of remarkable ...

NASA has spotted several other amusing rock formations on Mars over the years. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a picture of a rock formation that looks remarkably like a bear.

NASA researchers have succeeded in recreating the strange "spider-like" formations observed on the surface of Mars, offering the most concrete explanation to date for these peculiar features. The ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

Space probes captured images of intriguing spider-like formations on Mars, and now NASA scientists on Earth have recreated these huge patterns. NASA. Gidget Alikpala. About the author.

The spiderweb-like structures, first captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2006, are thought to be massive versions of "boxwork," a mineral formation found in some caves on Earth.

Scientists developed living materials that turn Martian dust into structures using synthetic lichens. This innovation enables ...

The five-year study was conducted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Over two decades since NASA researchers first saw images of mysterious, spider-like formations across the southern hemisphere ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover captured Skull Hill, a dark-toned float rock, on April 11, 2025. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a haunting rock formation on Mars that ...

This isn’t the first time weird geological formations have been spotted on Mars. In May last year, Nasa’s Curiosity Mars rover spotted a strange rock formation that looked like an “alien ...

It's not the first time these spider-like formations have been spotted on the Red Planet. The most recent images were captured by Mars Express' High Resolution Stereo Camera on Feb. 27, 2024.

Since researchers discovered araneiform terrain in 2003 using NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor orbiter, they have believed that the terrain — along with similar patterns, knowns as halos, fried ...