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"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." ...
New research suggests Mars - which we know as a very cold, dry, rocky planet - may once have actually been warmer and wetter.
NASA has found a rock on Mars that it has dubbed Skull Hill. The rock is known as a "float rock," and NASA has no idea where ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera ...
But researchers writing in the journal IMA Fungus say they reckon lichens could survive on Mars today, despite the planet's barren surface. Lichens are a strange "symbiotic" relationship between ...
Researchers may have found clues of possible ancient life beneath Mars' surface thanks to the Perseverance rover.
Mars, the Red Planet, looks nothing like Earth today. However, its geological features indicate it once had a warm and wet ...
Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to ...
WASHINGTON — A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it ...
by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Trailing Curiosity are the rover’s tracks, which can linger on the Martian surface for months before being erased by the wind.