Skywatchers can catch a rare conjunction of the moon and Mars on June 29, appearing as a reddish "cherry" near a crescent ...

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...

On November 13, 2020, a pair of European Space Agency spacecraft—Mars Express and the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter—set out to gain a deeper understanding of the Martian ionosphere. Utilizing an advanced ...

NASA images reveal shallow ice beneath Mars’s surface, offering a promising water source for future astronauts and clues to ...

Like Earth, Mars is surrounded by an ionosphere—the part of its upper atmosphere where radiation from the sun knocks ...

A Martian volcano, Arsia Mons, rises above the clouds in a stunning newly-released panoramic image captured by the Mars Odyssey Orbiter, revealing a peak higher than any terrestrial volcano.. Arsia ...

How solar wind may have eroded the atmosphere of Mars. A team of scientists analyzed more than nine years of data collected by NASA's Maven probe.

When June’s full moon rises Tuesday night, it will be at its lowest spot in a 37-year span, and it won't drop this low again ...

Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which ...

Researchers reckon they’ve solved one of the mysteries of Mars. There’s long been conspiracy theories about the dark markings found the planet’s surface, with scientists having their own ...

Dark streaks on Mars that have puzzled scientists since their discovery in the 1970s are not evidence of water as many researchers believed, but are instead caused by wind and dust activity, according ...