Rocks were flying everywhere, willy-nilly, smacking into the newly formed planets, pocking them with craters and gouging out ...

Mars is a planet marked by thousands of craters, but what makes some of them truly bizarre? Thanks to the HiRISE camera ...

We are basically showing that there may not have ever been a good reason to assume Mars' dynamo shut down early.' ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is scaling the western rim of Mars' Jezero Crater, facing its toughest challenge yet. The rover's ...

The Perseverance rover spotted a quick glimpse of a cosmic “googly eye” on Mars during a recent solar eclipse. As Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, passed in front of the sun, it cast a lumpy, ...

Researchers at Harvard's Paleomagnetics Lab have made a compelling case that Mars' magnetic field, which could have supported ...

2024 — Ground-penetrating radar on board NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has confirmed that the Jezero Crater, formed by an ancient meteor impact just north of the Martian equator, once harbored ...

Researchers are particularly interested in understanding whether Mars was habitable, and if so, during what period.

Evidence suggests Mars could very well have been teeming with life billions of years ago. Now cold, dry, and stripped of what was once a potentially protective magnetic field, the red planet is a kind ...

On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...