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 ...

The results will be worth the effort and the cost, not just in understanding the world around us in general but also in determining if there has ever been life on Mars. Dr. Bruce Jakosky has been ...

Mars was once rich with flowing water. Today, it's a cold, dusty desert marked by dried riverbeds and empty lake basins. Traces of ancient streams wind across its surface, hinting at a time when ...

Was Mars a friendly planet for water, even life, in its ancient past? Huge channel networks run across its surface. Rocks show signs of water immersion. Yet pictures sent back from NASA's ...

An illustration showing an early and costly concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Mars surface by NASA's now-on-duty Perseverance rover.

In March 2024, for the first time, scientists observed a visible green aurora on Mars. Although scientists had already detected many different types of auroras on Mars, they had all appeared at ...

Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the Red Planet: a vast reservoir of liquid water, locked deep in the crust.

Recent observations of Mars and Jupiter have now given scientists unprecedented views of these extraterrestrial aurorae that will help improve our understanding of other planets’ magnetic fields ...

There might be a hidden ocean's worth of liquid water below the surface of Mars, seismic evidence suggests. According to a new paper published April 25 in the journal National Science Review ...

A view of the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars on May 11, 2025. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) It is currently late autumn in Gale Crater, the region of Mars where Curiosity is exploring, meaning even ...