Sand dunes in a vast area of northern Mars long thought to be frozen in time are changing with both sudden and gradual motions, according to research using images from a NASA orbiter. These dune ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration of what a terraformed Martian landscape might look like. Mark Stevenson/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover is continuing to explore a boundary visible from orbit dividing bright, fractured outcrop from darker, smoother regolith (also known as a contact). The team has called this ...

NASA found the boulders on what has been dubbed "Mount Washburn," a rocky field on the Jezero crater, where an ancient lake is believed to have been located billions of years ago. The name "Mount ...

With its hills and distant mountains, the landscape seems somehow familiar yet at the same time eerily alien. The striking image was captured just recently by NASA’s Curiosity rover as it continues ...

As we delve deeper into the mysteries of the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to reveal intriguing features on Mars’ surface. Among these are the captivating images of blue sand dunes ...

For the past year, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been traveling through a transition zone from a clay-rich region to one filled with a salty mineral called sulfate. While the science team targeted ...

A colossal valley near Mars’s equator is revealing dramatic clues about the Red Planet’s watery and volcanic past. Stretching roughly 1,300 kilometers, Shalbatana Vallis was carved billions of years ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Sep 18, 2024, 11:55am EDT NASA's Curiosity rover captured this Mars ...