Thousands of mysterious clay mounds found on Mars were formed by ancient water on the Red Planet's barren northern plains, ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Although the beans in the photo look like beans, the probe actually captured images of large frozen dunes on Mars. NASA has ...

NASA is an eyewitness to just how weird Mars can be as evidenced by a “mushroom” rock spotted by the Perseverance rover. A red circle shows the mushroom-shaped rock seen by NASA's Perseverance ...

Martian sand primarily comprises basalt, a material formed from crushed volcanic rock. According to NASA ... Ice frost halts ...

For more than a year, scientists and aerospace engineers have been awaiting NASA’s decision on how to rescue the troubled Mars Sample Return mission, which aspires to bring Martian rocks and ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040. By Kenneth Chang Last year, Kenneth Chang wrote about a Martian ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...