Hera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

and evidence of ancient water flows on the Red Planet’s surface. The newly released images provide a detailed and immersive perspective of Mars, giving scientists and space enthusiasts a chance ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface of the Red Planet—and found evidence that Mars may have once been ...

"With our tools, we can model that," said Forget. Evidence of those impacts is visible today as craters on the planet's surface. While Mars is barren today, it has shown many faces in the past.

The result? It appears that the surface under the Martian north pole has not had nearly enough time to fully deform under the weight of the ice. Broquet's group estimates that Mars's north pole ...

The first thing most people think of when they consider Mars is its deep red color. The Romans associated the planet with their god of war because it reminded them of blood while the ...

“The Mariner 9 orbiter first imaged giant canyons on Hesperian surfaces of Mars in the 1970s, but they are generally viewed as representing catastrophic bursts of groundwater to the ...

The conclusion suggests that Mars may have rusted earlier in history than previously thought, during a time when water was still present on the surface. Because ferrihydrite forms rapidly in cool ...