On June 19, 2017, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter took a striking wide-angle image of Mars, presenting an “upside-down” view of the planet. The photo, part of a camera calibration ...

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ESA’s Mars orbiters have observed comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar comet ever discovered. The faint, distant object revealed a glowing coma as it was heated by the Sun. Researchers are ...

Nearly 50 years ago, NASA’s twin Viking orbiters captured images of narrow, twisty columns of dust swirling their way across the Martian surface. The shadowy figures were later confirmed to be dust ...

Blue Planet Red purports to be a documentary about Mars. The world presented by director Brian Cory Dobbs isn’t the one you and I might recognise, but it certainly has some appeal: it was home to an ...

Raw, unfiltered passion, instinctual self-preservation, warrior energy, and an unwavering desire to achieve our goals—these are the qualities of Mars. As the planet of ambition, drive, sexuality, and ...

AMHERST, Mass. — Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst are part of a team that has identified a unique mineral on Mars, described in Nature Communications. Named ferric ...

Seismic data from marsquakes provide insight into the Red Planet's interior. NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems Earthquakes can occur when our planet’s tectonic plates grind past each other. Mars ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The discovery of life on Mars is a tad closer than ever before. This month, NASA announced the discovery of signs of life on the red planet in deposits of clay and silt in a canyon.

Is there life on Mars? Or maybe just a turtle? A bizarre picture taken by a rover on the Red Planet appears to show what looks like a distinctive shelled reptile. NASA's Perseverance robot spotted the ...

One small step for man, one giant step to discovering Martiankind. After years of searching, NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered some polka-dotted rocks that may provide the strongest evidence ...

Samples collected from a rock dubbed “Cheyava Falls” contain a structure that hints at the possibility of having a biological origin, according to the space agency, but more research needs to be ...