Mars has long looked like a dead world, but Curiosity’s decade of fieldwork has steadily revealed a planet that once offered ...

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have uncovered evidence that water once flowed beneath Martian sand dunes — suggesting that the Red Planet may have once had conditions capable of supporting life. Scienti ...

NASA's Curiosity rover recently basked in a classic Red Planet vista as a colder season approaches. At first glance, this view may look like a vista from a bluff in the southwestern United States. But ...

A new scenario suggests how a rare form of quartz came to be found in a dried lake bed by the Curiosity rover. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Was the planet Mars ever habitable and what conditions led to it becoming the uninhabitable world we see today? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

What can carbon deposits on Mars tell scientists about whether life could have once existed on the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international ...

Symmetrical wave ripples identified with NASA’s Curiosity rover in ancient lake deposits at Gale crater provide a key paleoclimate constraint for early Mars: At the time of ripple formation, climate ...

Gale crater is located near the northwestern part of the Aeolis quadrangle. The crater was named after Walter Frederic Gale, an Australian amateur astronomer of 19th century. Aeolis Mons rises (5.5 km ...

This image along the southern interior floor of Gale Crater hosts many different landforms. Light-toned, scabby, and presumably hydrated materials on the crater floor are covered by large, ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery. While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – ...

NASA’s next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet’s Gale Crater. The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Curiosity, is scheduled to launch late this year and ...