NASA’s Perseverance rover has photographed a peculiar formation on Mars that looks like rocks stacked atop one another, a ...

How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Icarus hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

NASA shared a black-and-white image from the Curiosity rover’s ChemCam Remote Micro Imager that showed a small, coral-like rock formation on the floor of Gale Crater. The telescopic photo, taken on ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a ...

Over two decades since NASA researchers first saw images of mysterious, spider-like formations across the southern hemisphere of Mars, the space agency announced it's recreated the planet's "spiders" ...

Windswept piles of dust, or layers of ice? ESA's Mars Express has revisited one of Mars's most mysterious features to clarify its composition. Its findings suggest layers of water ice stretching ...

The observation of small gullies on Mars was one of the more unexpected discoveries of the Mars Observer Camera (MOC) aboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The characteristics of these gullies ...

Each spring, when the winter frost departs, the bulbous bodies and sprawling legs of “spiders” appear across Mars’ southern hemisphere. They’re known as araneiform terrain, and scientists at NASA’s ...

MARS (KTRK) -- The scientific community is buzzing over new photos taken by the Curiosity Mars rover. On September 8, the rover snapped several photos of dazzling rock formations that give Earth's ...

Scientists have broadly agreed for years that the thousands of small cone-shaped mounds peppering Mars’ northern lowlands are ...

The early solar system was a chaotic place, with evidence indicating that Mars was likely struck by planetesimals, small protoplanets up to 1,200 miles in diameter, early in its history. Southwest ...

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...