Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a ...

NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars ...

In a recent update from the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity’s activities during Sols 4731-4742 have marked a significant ...

During a recent solar storm, NASA's Curiosity rover detected its highest-ever level of radiation reaching the surface of Mars. Reading time 3 minutes A recent outburst from the Sun sent a strong blast ...

The observation of small gullies on Mars was one of the more unexpected discoveries of the Mars Observer Camera (MOC) aboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The characteristics of these gullies ...

If you’re a scientist studying the surface of Mars, few discoveries could be more exciting than seeing recent gullies apparently formed by running water. And that’s what scientists believed they saw ...

Things are looking up for digging deep on Mars. Progress is palpable on how best to extract subsurface ice to generate drinkable water, rocket fuel and other useful resources on the Red Planet. But ...

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 flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.

The fractures of the Cerberus Fossae landscape, located in the vast plain Elysium Planitia on Mars, cut through hills and craters, indicating their relative youth. A new study providing the most ...

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