"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." Though Mars, the Red Planet, is a vast and inhospitable land today, scientists ...

Despite this, Mars currently presents harsh conditions ... "Sand dunes have multiple directions. Same with lava flows," he ...

However, Mars’ less dense atmosphere means that wind speeds need to be higher to move sand particles. The study of these ...

Curiosity has been the subject of countless selfies and images taken from space, but has never been photographed from Mars' own orbit. The reconnaissance orbiter, which has been circling Mars ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found iron-rich carbonates on Mars, offering new clues about the planet's ancient climate and potential habitability. While slowly climbing the slopes of Mount Sharp ...

On Mars, which has a thin atmosphere (less than 1% of Earth's) and no ozone layer, about 30% more damaging UV radiation reaches the surface. However, numerical modeling predicts ice and snow ...

Sometime between about 9:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. EST (depending on where you were in North America), the full "Wolf Moon" drifted across Mars, briefly swallowing the Red Planet from the sky.

Geologists weigh in on a long-running debate about Mars: Billions of years ago, was the Red Planet warm and wet or cold and dry? Visit ancient Mars -- a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or ...