An unexpected tool is giving us new insight into the fine structure of the outer layers of Mars. Using meteorites that were ...

When a meteorite smashed into Mars 11 million years ago, debris landed on Earth as meteorites, giving an unparalleled look at ...

Celestial Mystery Mysteries abound on the planet Mars — from the tantalizing traces of ancient riverbeds on its surface to ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the origins on Phobos and Demos, the red planet's strangely-shaped moons. Now they are ...

“Martian meteorites are the only physical materials we have available from Mars,” said James Day from UC San Diego, who led ...

Mars, a planet often associated with a lifeless, dusty expanse, holds a puzzling amount of organic matter on its surface.

The conventional wisdom about Mars’ small and misshapen moons, Phobos and Deimos, is that they were either created like Earth ...

Mar. 13, 2024 — A deeply eroded giant volcano, active from ancient through recent times and with possible remnants of glacier ice near its base, had been hiding near Mars' equator in plain sight.

The Chassigny meteorite in cross-polarized light. This meteorite is dominated by the mineral olivine. Grains are roughly 0.5 millimeters across. Credit: UC San Diego. Researchers at the Scripps ...

Perseverance will stay on Mars forever, but the majority of its carefully packaged samples are meant to return to Earth. The ...

A mysterious hole was captured on the surface of Mars by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera of ...

NASA is actively working to return surface samples from Mars in the next few years, which they hope will help us better ...