Astronomers have long puzzled over the origins on Phobos and Demos, the red planet's strangely-shaped moons. Now they are ...
This drift arises due to the Yarkovsky effect, a force generated when the sunlit surfaces of asteroids re-radiate the energy ...
Getting humans to Mars has been on the minds of leading scientists and engineers since the '50s, but for one reason or ...
Using meteorites that were long ago chipped off the red planet around 11 million years ago and flung into space to eventually ...
Celestial Mystery Mysteries abound on the planet Mars — from the tantalizing traces of ancient riverbeds on its surface to ...
"The Gale lake environment, as revealed by these ancient rocks, gives us a window into a habitable environment." ...
Meteorites from Mars are helping researchers better understand the geology of the Red Planet — and the formation of Earth.
Newfound rocks on Mars suggest the planet may have once sported an oxygen-rich atmosphere, making it more Earth-like and hospitable ... lake bed that the rover has been exploring since 2012.
Perseverance will stay on Mars forever, but the majority of its carefully packaged samples are meant to return to Earth. The ...
The giant impact that formed the Moon may also have led to extrastrong mantle plumes that enabled the first subduction event, ...
Mars, a planet often associated with a lifeless, dusty expanse, holds a puzzling amount of organic matter on its surface.