NASA's Perseverance rover has added to its trove of curious finds, as the space agency published a photo of a rock on the surface of Mars that looks like a centuries-old helmet. The rock has a pointed ...

The Mastcam-Z instrument, a pair of zoom-capable cameras on Perseverance's neck-like mast, allows scientists to capture ...

Test-run shows how a team of three autonomous robots could search for extraterrestrial environments suitable for sheltering ...

Mars’s Acheron Fossae reveals a frozen, fractured landscape shaped by ancient forces, holding clues to the planet’s climate ...

Here’s a look at the exploration of Mars. The United States, Soviet Union and China are the only three countries to land a spacecraft on Mars. Facts There have been nine successful US Mars landings: ...

Despite being thinner and drier than Earth's atmosphere, Mars's atmosphere contains clouds composed of tiny water ice ...

Acheron Fossae is filled with dramatic landscape features — most notably, its namesake fossae, or fault-like channels that ...

Scientists from SETI and NASA Ames have identified a rare iron sulfate on Mars that may be a new mineral, formed by heat, ...

New research published in Nature Communications identifies an iron sulfate on Mars that may represent a brand-new mineral.

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its ...

Cosmic rays from deep space might be the secret energy source that allows life to exist underground on Mars and icy moons ...