Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to ...

Despite its dry, dusty surface and thinner atmosphere, Mars may have more in common with Earth than scientists previously ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a haunting rock formation on Mars that looks unsettlingly like a skull. Dubbed "Skull Hill," the jet-black outcrop is so bizarre and out of place that even ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Before Perseverance was launched, NASA equipped it with nine bits: one for Martian soil, two for removing the dust-covered ...

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NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted a mysterious rock on the Red Planet, which the space agency has named 'Skull Hill'.

But researchers writing in the journal IMA Fungus say they reckon lichens could survive on Mars today, despite the planet's barren surface. Lichens are a strange "symbiotic" relationship between ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

Artist's depiction of water rushing into Mars' Jezero Crater, which billions of years ago was the site of a delta. (Credit: ...