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

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

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

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

Frigid water helped paint Mars red and may have shaped a ... like those found elsewhere on the Martian surface. But the detected features don’t match the expected shape of windblown sand dunes ...