Bleached clay rocks found on the Martian surface suggest that the Red Planet was once home to heavy rainfall and tropical ...

Scientists have created the most detailed map of Mars’ ancient river systems, pinpointing 16 major basins that may have once ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

Small, pale spots on the reddish-orange landscape of Mars have turned out to be a new clue that parts of the planet may once ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

The latest findings clarify the mystery; they highlight the utility of the radar technique for identifying subsurface ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected 'mini-lightning' on Mars for the first time, capturing faint crackles from dust-driven ...

This temporal lag is a direct consequence of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. The rule is simple: the weaker ...

Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold ...

Physicists found that clocks on Mars will tick 477 microseconds (millionths of a second) faster than on Earth per day, on ...

Skylights, openings in the surface of Mars that descend down into caves, have been found on Mars, along with signatures for the presence of water ice. Possible giant "karstic" caves that formed when ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.