If you suddenly found yourself standing on the surface of Mars, it would feel like you’d been transported into a dusty space western. The arid soil lays a rocky palette of red powder across the ...

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Frigid water helped paint Mars red and may have shaped a vast coastline, two new studies into the planet’s history reveal. Scientists have detected a possible ancient beach in Mars’ northern ...

NASA has released two expansive 360° panoramas from its Curiosity and Perseverance rovers, offering contrasting glimpses into Mars’ geological past. Curiosity’s images from Gale Crater reveal younger ...

Thruster shatters records: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested a lithium-fed plasma thruster at 120 kilowatts, the highest power level for such a system in the U.S. Mars water mystery: Curiosity ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets examines the 39th drilling sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars from a rock named "Sequoia", which comes shortly ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has learned new data about a major crater on Mars, teaching researchers and astronomers about how the structure was formed and when water was present on the planet.

Exotically pitted “Swiss-cheese” terrain made of carbon dioxide (dry ice) overlies the topmost layer of water ice in Mars’ South Polar Massive Carbon Dioxide Ice Deposit. Image is about 1 kilometer ...

"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was caused by magmatic activity that still occurs periodically on Mars to the ...

When did liquid water exist on Mars and what can it tell us about when, or if, life ever existed on the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Geochemical Perspective Letters hopes to ...