Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Mars wasn't always the dusty red desert we know today. Billions of years ago, waves may have crashed against sandy beaches under an alien sky, while rivers carried sediments into a vast northern ocean ...

A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once ...

“The idea is that Mars’ climate cooled down by this time and the surface dried up ... The orientation of these features (is) parallel to what the old shoreline would have been.” The structures ...

Researchers have developed a promising technique to identify potential microbial fossils on Mars. Sulfate minerals like gypsum, abundant on the Martian surface, may hold clues to ancient life.

Mars – dusty, dry, and desert-clad – was once so rich in water it had not just lakes, but oceans, according to a new study. Observations using ground-penetrating radar have revealed underground ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

"We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand—a proper, vacation-style beach," said geologist Benjamin Cardenas.

Photo: Map of Utopia Planitia, Zhurong Mars rover landing site, and four possible ancient shorelines. Photo: Courtesy of the ...