A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover found a 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on the rim of Jezero Crater, a rock that could help reveal ...

Using artificial intelligence, scientists have discovered a crater from a meteoroid that they say shook material as deep as ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun on Jan. 15. It will be visible all night long because it will rise with the ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for ...

Some of the Martian buttes and mesas on the Red Planet's northern plains. Inside these eroded mounds are layers of clay ...

Using syrup and baking soda, research has demonstrated the formation mechanism of rootless cones, small volcanic landforms commonly found on Earth and Mars. The study clarified, through an ...

The findings are the result of the ongoing studies performed by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been scouring the red ...

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the Red Planet never ...

Aside from Earth, no planet in the solar system captures our imagination quite like Mars. The Red Planet is one of the few places in our cosmic neighborhood where extraterrestrial life may have ...

(CNN) — Thousands of mysterious mounds on Mars preserve layers of evidence pointing to ancient water on the red planet that likely sculpted the towering formations. More than 15,000 mounds jut ...