“Martian ice exposures are probably one of the most accessible places we should be looking” for life on the red planet, ...

2024 — Quakes and meteor impacts on Mars generate seismic waves that can help map the interior. A new study analyzed seismic waves detected by the Insight lander and concludes that 11-20 ...

Soon after the team reported their results, Jagoutz happened to look at a map of the surface of Mars and realized that much of that planet's surface was covered in the same smectite clays.

On Sept. 30, NASA's Perseverance rover turned its eyes toward the sky and photographed a solar eclipse from Mars, capturing the tiny moon Phobos crossing the sun's face.

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But the problems presented by Mars' atmosphere for ice to melt into water don't exist below a glacier or tightly packed snow. The team plans to map out the most likely spots on Mars where shallow ...

Soon after the team reported their results, Jagoutz happened to look at a map of the surface of Mars and realized that much of that planet's surface was covered in the same smectite clays.

Over that time, it’s covered 20.13 miles and while that might not sound like very far, the surface of Mars has wrought havoc on the little craft’s wheels. While driving over the rocky ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. When Mars lost its atmosphere billions of years ago, it transformed from a planet that could have ...

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Few things in space are simply black and white — but this bizarre rock certainly is. NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover discovered a strange black-and-white rock unlike anything seen on Mars ...

As fun as it would be to visit Mars, we wouldn't necessarily want to walk a mile in the Curiosity rover's shoes — or rather, its wheels. After landing in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 and traveling ...