New research shows that an intense regional dust storm transported unusually high amounts of water vapor into Mars’ upper atmosphere, boosting hydrogen escape. The discovery reshapes understanding of ...

A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100°C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has taken a new and much clearer look at a confusing feature hidden deep under the Red Planet’s polar ice. In 2018, a different spacecraft picked up a bright ...

Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps just a piece of one, along with its twin moon Deimos. When you ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured a series of black and white panoramas at two times of day which were then merged ...

A Martian mystery that sparked years of debate — an alleged lake buried beneath miles of ice — now looks far less watery than scientists hoped. A new radar study from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance ...

Scientists compare volcanic cones on Earth and Mars to explain how gas-rich magma forms scoria cones. Spacecraft observations and Earth analog sites provide evidence of similar eruptive processes.

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, ...

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A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected for decades but... At long last, the mystery of lightning on Mars is ...