Mars
Dust Devils Have Left Dark Streaks All Over This Martian Crater
There may be no life on Mars, but there's still a lot going on there. The Martian surface is home…
Salt Water Might Still be Able to Collect on the Surface of Mars a Few Days a Year
A new study from the PSI indicates that around Mars' equator, salt water could form on the surface for a…
Mars Was Hit By a Lot of Protoplanets Early in its History, Taking Longer to Form than Previously Thought.
There are around 61,000 meteorites on Earth, or at least that's how many have been found. Out of those, about…
Mars 2020 Will be The Third Time That NASA Has Tried to Send a Microphone to Mars
The Mars 2020 rover, which will launch this summer, will be the third NASA mission to bring a microphone to…
A Meteor Smashed Into Mars in 2005, Making this Crater
NASA has repeatedly imaged the Martian surface, and sometimes a feature appears that wasn't there in prior images. That's what…
This is the Spot Where ESA’s Schiaparelli Crashed Into Mars
The MRO's HiRISE camera recently snapped fresh images of where the ESA's Schiaparelli lander crashed on the surface of Mars…
A Glitch Caused Curiosity to Freeze in Place. But It’s Better Now
Article updated at 3:40 pm CST, 1/24/20. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover experienced a technical glitch last week, causing it to…
This is Probably Sandstone Layers on Mars. Absolutely Beautiful
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been in orbit around Mars for almost 14 years. It carries a variety of…
Curiosity Looked up and Saw Phobos During the Daytime
This image of Phobos in the sky above Mars was taken by Curiosity in 2012 and was recently refurbished by…
Beautiful Image of Ice at Mars’ Northern Polar Cap
A new image from the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft shows how beautiful, and desolate, Mars can appear. It also highlights…