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Fragments left behind from massive space debris that struck Mars about 4.5 billion years ago are believed to be buried deep beneath the planet’s surface, according to new research published in the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a haunting rock formation on Mars that looks unsettlingly like a skull. Dubbed "Skull Hill," the jet-black outcrop is so bizarre and out of place that even ...

A blue dune captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has raised new questions about wind, sediment, and ...

WASHINGTON — A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it ...

For years, scientists have been intrigued by mysterious dark streaks running down the slopes of Martian cliffs and craters. These marks, called slope streaks and recurring slope lineae (RSLs), have ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has added to its trove of curious finds, as the space agency published a photo of a rock on the surface of Mars that looks like a centuries-old helmet. The rock has a pointed ...

Scientists identified an iron-rich mineral on the surface of Mars that suggests the planet’s surface may be more dynamic than we thought. Reading time 2 minutes Scientists have a fairly good idea of ...

Satellite images of the Red Planet suggest scientists were wrong about these strange Martian features. First identified in the 1970s by NASA's Viking mission, long, dark markings snake down Martian ...

Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...