Mars has a new showpiece for planetary scientists, and it looks uncannily like a butterfly frozen mid-flight. A fresh set of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

Near-surface water ice could supply essential resources for future human exploration on the Red Planet. Before sending people ...

When one thinks of lightning, the image that comes to mind is that of terrestrial storms. But on Mars, a planet where water ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Forget the dusty, rusty landscape you see today. Billions of years ago, Mars may have been soaking wet. Tropical storms might ...

This temporal lag is a direct consequence of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. The rule is simple: the weaker ...

A new report published Tuesday, titled “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” represents the answer from ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

New research reveals that ancient Mars once hosted vast river drainage systems comparable in scale to some of Earth’s major ...

Ancient Mars once teemed with flowing rivers, forming vast drainage systems. A new study has mapped these large basins, ...

Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through ...