Forget the dusty, rusty landscape you see today. Billions of years ago, Mars may have been soaking wet. Tropical storms might ...
New research reveals that ancient Mars once hosted vast river drainage systems comparable in scale to some of Earth’s major ...
NASA has quietly taken a major step toward crewed missions to Mars by selecting four people to live and work in a sealed, ...
With its hills and distant mountains, the landscape seems somehow familiar yet at the same time eerily alien. The striking image was captured just recently by NASA’s Curiosity rover as it continues ...
Sand dunes in a vast area of northern Mars long thought to be frozen in time are changing with both sudden and gradual motions, according to research using images from a NASA orbiter. These dune ...
Though Mars, the Red Planet, is a vast and inhospitable land today, scientists think it once resembled our very own Earth — the Blue Planet, if you will. More specifically, experts say Mars once had a ...
When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.” The plot drew me in, with its depiction of the “Genesis Project” – a new ...
A Mars landscape with NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter seen on the dune in the distance. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, has captured an image (above) showing the final resting place ...
As we travel from Mars’s equator toward the planet’s northern regions, we arrive at Coloe Fossae. This landscape is characterized by long, shallow grooves that cut across an area filled with steep ...
Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris ...
NASA found the boulders on what has been dubbed "Mount Washburn," a rocky field on the Jezero crater, where an ancient lake is believed to have been located billions of years ago. The name "Mount ...
Scientists got a rare look at the curving Martian landscape thanks to images captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter, the space agency announced Tuesday. NASA revealed multiple new panoramic ...