While initial studies and reports indicated that glaciers on Mars were composed mainly of rock and dust, recent planetary ...

Scientists have long been fascinated by Mars, studying the rocks and minerals on its surface, and they might have learned something new about its past.

Scientists using data from a NASA lander have discovered fragments from massive objects that impacted Mars 4.5 billion years ago are likely buried deep within the planet's mantle.

NASA says its Perseverance rover on Mars has transmitted new imagery that forms one of the sharpest panoramas of the Martian ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a striking new image of massive, wind-carved sand formations known as "megaripples" ...

With its rust-colored surface, Mars has more than earned its nickname, the Red Planet. But Perseverance has offered a new ...

Mars sits just inside the Goldilocks Zone, suggesting that life was or is possible there, theoretically at least.

Acheron Fossae is filled with dramatic landscape features — most notably, its namesake fossae, or fault-like channels that ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has added to its trove of curious finds, as the space agency published a photo of a rock on the ...

Locked away beneath the surface of Mars are vast quantities of water ice. But the properties of that ice—how pure it is, how deep it goes, what shape it takes—remain a mystery to planetary ...

“Mars once had liquid water on its surface in rivers, lakes and possibly oceans,” Dr. Michael Manga, the chair of the University of California — Berkeley’s Department of Earth and ...

These data greatly advance our understanding of surface processes and the action of water on Mars." The results of this first analysis are likely indicative of the overall surface layer, said Leshin.