Mars is slowly revealing its secrets, and a new study of its terrain done 170 million miles away here on Earth has unveiled an anomalous glacier on a flat plain, akin to those found in Antarctica ...

When the Curiosity rover set out last July on its much-anticipated drive to the Mars mission's ultimate destination — the three-mile-high science prize called Mount Sharp — everyone knew the ...

Mars is slowly revealing its secrets, and a new study of its terrain done 170 million miles away here on Earth has unveiled an anomalous glacier on a flat plain, akin to those found in Antarctica ...

A cropped view of the brain terrain. Image: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin. There are several ideas about brain terrain’s origins; one leading theory is that the terrain comes from buried water that ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover took a stunning panoramic photo showing — in exquisite detail — a large stretch of black Martian sand and a mountain range more than 30km away from it.

NASA already has robots exploring the surface of Mars, but there are plenty of places these roaming science laboratories cannot go. One day a pint-sized rover may help fill in the blanks, with the ...

Mars has a small South Polar cap of carbon dioxide ice. Although this cap persists year round, it is always changing: it has pits and mesas that in some places resemble a slice of Swiss cheese.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is conducting its science campaign, taking samples at Jezero Crater’s ancient river delta, but it’s also been busy scouting. The rover is looking for locations ...

After a 10-month, 422-million-mile voyage, NASA's Phoenix Mars lander touched down Sunday and began transmitting pictures from the arctic plains of the Red Planet where scientists hope to find ...