PASADENA, Calif.–The current mean temperature on the equator of Mars is a blustery 69 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Scientists have long thought that the Red Planet was once temperate enough for ...

Curiosity's view of the Martian landscape on May 12, 2025. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA's Curiosity Rover has been roaming the Red Planet since 2012, taking thousands of pictures, drilling small holes in ...

Buried dozens of meters under the equator of Mars is a large honeycomb pattern similar to what's found near Earth's frigid poles. Each crevasse spans 70 meters (230 feet) — about half a football field ...

Mars has an atmosphere; therefore it must have weather. Starting with this thesis—as thin as the Martian atmosphere itself—Seymour L. Hess of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz, set out to chart ...

An early morning frost has been discovered for the first time atop the tallest volcanoes in the solar system, found near Mars' equator, changing what planetary scientists thought they knew about Mars' ...

Recent studies have unveiled a fascinating possibility: volcanic explosions on Mars may have been responsible for the creation of massive ice deposits at the planet’s equator. This revelation not only ...

A colossal slab of ice may be hiding at Mars’s equator. The composition of this deposit, called the Medusae Fossae Formation, has long been debated, but new data indicates that it contains enough ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has been roaming the Red Planet since 2012, taking thousands of pictures, drilling small holes in the planet's surface and searching for evidence of past habitable environments ...

The newfound honeycomb fractures are the "most compelling evidence to date" that Mars was tilted more extremely than it is today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...