On a day like any other, astronomers peered into the depths of space and found something utterly perplexing on the Martian surface. High-resolution images from orbiting missions revealed bizarre ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed a bizarre, coral-shaped rock on Mars, believed to have formed billions of years ago.

Each spring, when the winter frost departs, the bulbous bodies and sprawling legs of “spiders” appear across Mars’ southern hemisphere. They’re known as araneiform terrain, and scientists at NASA’s ...

How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Icarus hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New experiments have shown that the core of Mars formed much faster than Earth's core, thanks to molten iron and nickel sulfides ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has returned a close-up image of a small rock on Mars that has caught attention for its coral-like appearance. The formation wa.

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...

Some corners of the internet have been buzzing over a spacecraft-snapped image of a “square” on Mars. The image highlights a geologic formation with a seemingly square-like shape. Alien enthusiasts ...

A new investigative technique has shown the latitudinal distribution of ice-rich landforms on Mars. This large-scale study enables future, more detailed investigations to study several young deposits ...

Over two decades since NASA researchers first saw images of mysterious, spider-like formations across the southern hemisphere of Mars, the space agency announced it's recreated the planet's "spiders" ...

Due to extreme temperatures and the dryness of Mars, it’s thought to be impossible for liquid water to form on the planet’s surface, a critical precondition for habitability. The only hope of finding ...