NASA’s Curiosity rover captured stunning images of Martian twilight clouds, revealing iridescent dry ice formations on Mars.

Living on Mars will be no easy feat. Building viable living quarters would require an inflatable habitat that can be covered with a protective shell. But does Mars have any resources we could use to ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured stunning twilight images of Martian clouds, revealing iridescent red and green tinges. These ...

While Mars' atmosphere ... twilight clouds to form in one place but not another." Even though researchers don't totally understand how the clouds are formed, they can predict when and where ...

For decades, we have been imaging the surface of Mars with ever-finer resolution ... aluminum- and iron-rich clays. These clays can occur when the water source is acidic or can be simply due ...

Red-and-green-tinted clouds drift through the Martian sky in a new set of images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its ...

Martian clouds are almost always made of dry ice, or frozen carbon dioxide. 95% of the planet's atmosphere is CO2.

Water, either in liquid or ice form ... and ocean basins, but Mars has no plate tectonics of its own,” McNeil said. “This means it’s difficult to explain why the southern highlands of ...

American space agency NASA publishes a short video showing iridescent clouds moving in the thin Martian atmosphere, as seen ...

New research from Harvard University suggests that Mars experienced ... can penetrate water ice enough to allow photosynthesis in shallow meltwater pools. These pools, which may form in the ...