As dawn broke over the Martian landscape, NASA’s Perseverance rover captured an intriguing image of something drifting in the ...

The tests also revealed that the ditches only develop on dunes with very fine, evenly sized sand grains. Coarser or more ...

Imagine a visitor from another star system, twice as old as Earth, hurtling through our cosmic neighbourhood. This isn't ...

Mars has two permanent polar ice caps of water ice and some dry ice, and a few patches of ice both on and under the surface.

Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a ...

NASA’s “leopard-spotted” Martian rock may be the clearest potential sign of ancient microbial life yet—proof awaits sample ...

A new analysis of chemical signatures measured by NASA's Curiosity Rover gives a peek at Mars's past to a time some 3.7 ...

Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

To improve long term mission sustainability, NASA is planning two missions in the near future to demonstrate how to produce water on the moon and oxygen on Mars. The initiative known as IRSU, or ...

A NASA study shows bacteria fragments can survive 50 million years in Martian ice. Pure ice, not rock, could hold clues to ...