One of the best parts about sending rovers like Perseverance to other planets, is sometimes they send back some absolutely ...

“It’s a chance for families, students and anyone curious about the cosmos to get an up-close experience of Mars that is both ...

Right now there is no conclusive evidence of life on Mars past or present. Nasa’s “leopard spots” are the most promising signs we have, but these are still inconclusive. If life exists on Mars today, ...

For more than 20 years, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter has been imaging the surface of the Red Planet. One region, in particular, continues to fascinate the Mars Express team, ...

A new study using high-resolution images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed striking surface patterns on Mars that resemble the effects of paint dripping down a wall—a ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to feed hundreds of lakes. A new study from geologists at the University of ...

Scientists simulated the conditions of Mars in a lab to observe how blocks of carbon dioxide "dug" their way through the ...

There might be a hidden ocean's worth of liquid water below the surface of Mars, seismic evidence suggests. According to a new paper published April 25 in the journal National Science Review, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured images of a Martian dust devil consuming a smaller one on the surface of the red planet. Dust devils are "swirling, sometimes towering columns of air and dust," NASA ...

Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and it's a fascinating celestial body. It's small, irregularly shaped, and orbiting just about 6,000 kilometers above the surface of the Red ...