The mounds lie north of a feature of Mars known as the Martian dichotomy, where the towering, ancient highlands of the southern hemisphere give way to shallower, younger plains that stretch across the ...
The ‘Martian dichotomy’ is one of the Solar System’s greatest mysteries – but new research in closing in on a solution.
A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...
NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...
Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...
Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...
Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...
It was a routine flight for the rotorcraft, which had proved that powered, controlled flight was possible on another planet, ...
An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.
Unlike the dunes on Earth which are constantly in motion, the kidney bean-shaped dunes on Mars appear surprisingly motionless ...
NASA recently released an overhead view of what appears to be massive kidney beans found on Mars' northern hemisphere. In ...