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The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometres of ancient riverbeds on Mars suggests that the Red Planet may once have been ...
NASA's Mariner 4 captured the first-ever close-up image of Mars on July 14, 1965. While waiting for the data to be processed ...
Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...
For years, scientists have been looking for signs of liquid water just beneath the surface of Mars. New research recently published in Nature Communications may have dried up one of the most ...
Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the ...
The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (500-428 BC) was the first person to hypothesize that the seeds of life are present ...
Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon Triton, and Comet 67P. These geological features, among the ...
Researchers focused on fluvial sinuous ridges, or inverted channels, winding through Noachis Terra, a region in Mars’ southern highlands. These features likely formed when river sediments solidified ...
Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove ...
Join us as we dive into Mars like never before, with breathtaking 4K footage captured by NASA's rovers, including Curiosity, Opportunity, and Spirit. In this video, you’ll get an up-close look at Mars ...