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

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

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 ...

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese geologists has created a Mars soil simulant that almost replicates Utopia Planitia soil, a ...

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

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

China is positioning itself to take the lead in one of the most coveted goals in planetary science—returning samples from ...

Geologist Steve Squyres risked his career and millions of dollars to get the Spirit and Opportunity rovers on Mars.

Image from the NASA Viking 1 Orbiter that shows a geological formatting on Mars that looks like a human face© NASA/JPL-Caltech Image from NASA's Viking mission showing black streaks along the ...

‘FACE ON MARS’: Small part of the Cydonia region, taken by the Viking 1 orbiter and released by NASA/JPL on July 25, 1976. Credit: By Viking 1, NASA – Viking 1 Orbiter, image F035A72.

NASA’s Viking program sent two identical probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, to Mars. Both of these consisted of an orbiter to take photographs of the planet, and a lander to conduct experiments on ...