NASA’s Perseverance rover mission unintentionally created five impact craters on Mars, giving scientists a rare opportunity to study the planet’s surface with known impact conditions. The discovery, ...

A crater on Mars has a bright patch of ice. It's the second time in over a decade that the crater and ice has been observed ...

A Mars rover expected lake mud at Jezero Crater's rim but found volcanic rock that had encountered water three separate times ...

Since 2021, NASA 's Perseverance rover has explored Jezero crater, a 28-mile-wide basin on Mars where rivers once fed a lake.

NASA’s Curiosity rover marked 5,000 Martian days by capturing morning and afternoon views that were blended into a striking ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered a surprisingly complicated history of water in Jezero Crater. Scientists expected the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered new clues about the history of water on Mars after analyzing rocks in the Marginal Unit of Jezero Crater. Scientists had expected to find remnants of ancient ...

Perseverance has reached another important point in its Mars exploration, giving the rover a new area to investigate.

The scientists were especially intrigued by strong signals of carbonate minerals detected by Mars orbiters. On Earth, carbonates frequently form in shallow ocean and lake environments capable of ...

This image of Mars shows what it might be like to stand on the Red Planet and look across into the distance. But it also ...

A spacecraft orbiting Mars has spotted glass in the red planet’s impact craters. And it’s possible that this glass, formed in the searing heat of ancient impacts, could contain signs of long-ago life.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ancient impact depression under the surface regolith layer of Deimos, one of several made clearer thanks to stereoscopics image ...