Mars just dropped a surprise golden nugget —literally. Curiosity accidentally cracked open an ordinary-looking rock, only to ...

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

Humans are determined to discover more details about Mars, Earth's neighboring planet, which seems to hide many secrets. So ...

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NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route to continue exploring Mount Sharp. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NAS ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

For the fourth year in a row, iridescent clouds of frozen CO2 are lighting the Martian sky. The clouds appear in the same place, at the same time of year.

In January 2023, NASA's Curiosity rover captured images of noctilucent clouds during a Martian sunset, including a rare category of iridescent bright noctilucent clouds that appear feather-shaped ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of “Marker Band Valley” at two times of day on April 8. Color was added to a combination of both ...

In January 2025, other researchers reported evidence of ripples in sedimentary rocks at the bottom of Gale Crater, the landing site for NASA's Curiosity rover, suggesting the presence of long-gone ...