NASA's Mariner 4 captured the first-ever close-up image of Mars on July 14, 1965. While waiting for the data to be processed ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

The whopping 25-kilogram Martian rock will be sold at a special natural history-themed auction at Sotheby's in New York this ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Due to extreme temperatures and the dryness of Mars, it's thought to be impossible for liquid water to form on the planet's surface, a critical precondition for habitability. The only hope of finding ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. As ...

"Our work is a new piece of evidence that suggests that Mars was once a much more complex and active planet than it is now." ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

Frost-covered regions present the best candidates for the future habitability of Mars and further astrobiological exploration, research into brines shows.

The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds on Mars suggests that the Red Planet may once have been much wetter than previously thought.