Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Observing Mars with probes If you look closely at pictures of Mars taken by rovers on its surface, you can see that most of the planet isn’t purely red, but more of a rusty brown or tan color.

A tale of two red planets Satellite images of Mars today still reveal the fingerprints of water on the planet. Around the equator, for example, vast networks of channels spread from Martian highlands, ...

It's hard to explain that with just ice." A tale of two red planets Satellite images of Mars today still reveal the fingerprints of water on the planet.

Given that Mars is significantly colder and further from the Sun, it's easy to imagine that its polar ice caps have been there for ages, and the planet is frozen and static. But that isn't likely ...

Water Ice Has Officially Been Found On Mars: This image, captured by ESA's Mars Express, showcases the Korolev crater, an 82-kilometer-wide structure located in the northern lowlands of Mars.

The newly released photos, taken using Mars Express' High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), capture seasonal polar caps composed mainly of carbon dioxide ice with some water ice. In spring, the ice ...

Europe's Mars Express and Trace Gas Orbiter missions captured a variety of cryptic surface features poking through melting ice across the Red Planet's south pole as spring hit the region.

This stunning image of dune fields near Mars' north polar ice cap, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, showcases the impact of polar winds on the Red Planet's landscape.