More than five years into its mission, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is still ambling across the surface of the red planet, ...

I see the discovery of comet 3I/ATLAS as a turning point: for the first time, spacecraft orbiting Mars have helped lock down ...

Scientists exploring Mars have found something unusual — a strange rock sitting in a spot where it clearly doesn’t belong. NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered the odd boulder on September 19, 2025, ...

If there is, or ever has been, life on Mars, the chances are it would exist in caves protected from the severe dust storms, ...

Scientists suspect iron meteorites might be able to resist erosion on Mars, which may explain why some appear perched on flat ground rather than embedded in craters. In other cases, a crater may have ...

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New research indicates that early Martian volcanoes may have emitted reactive sulfur gases that warmed the planet and supported conditions suitable for microbial life. Although scientists are still ...

New images from ESA's Mars Express reveal Olympus Mons' colossal scale and intriguing features. Frozen lava tongues cascade ...

The ESA's Mars probe, TGO, captured the closest images ever of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, improving its trajectory ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

Since comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object, was discovered on 1 July 2025, astronomers worldwide have worked ...