The discovery of a vast, fresh impact scar on Mars began with what looked like a smudge in a routine weather snapshot. A ...

Earth and Mars will, hopefully, never meet, but that doesn't mean they can't engage in a little exchange program. Thanks to the often violent nature of the Solar System, material that has been blasted ...

Jezero Crater is the home of NASA's Perseverance rover. See a bird's-eye view of the crater with this animated flyover ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

A rare butterfly-shaped crater spreads across Mars' northern plains. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new view of Mars showcases ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Right Navigation Camera ...

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.

Astronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A new study, utilizing seismic data from NASA’s InSight lander, significantly revises the estimated annual meteorite impact rate on Mars to approximately 300 basketball-sized objects, a five-fold ...

NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five year search, during which every available detail of more than 60 candidate locations on the Red ...