In 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter, a robotic probe of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), went out of ...

Mars has always captured human imagination with its striking red hues and mysterious landscapes. Recent images from NASA’s Mars Orbiter unveiled a peculiar geological feature that has intrigued ...

A study suggests Mars takes its red hue from a type of mineral that forms in cool water, which could reveal insights about whether Mars was ever able to support life.

The Trace Gas Orbiter’s CaSSIS color camera ... But it provides intriguing clues about Mars’ geologic and climate history, he said. “Since this water-containing rust blankets most of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface of the Red Planet—and found evidence that Mars may have once been warm, wet ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

Mars has fascinated people for centuries, not only because it is our closest neighbor in space but also because of its ...

“The Mariner 9 orbiter first imaged giant canyons on ... “The idea is that Mars’ climate cooled down by this time and the surface dried up.” Multiple spacecraft have captured observations ...

"What we want to understand is the ancient Martian climate, the chemical processes ... combining orbital observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agency's ...