"Rootless cones form when lava flows over wet or icy ground, causing it to boil and explode," said Dundas. "The region around ...

The signs of wave ripples in the sandy shores of ancient lake beds, created as wind pushed water back and forth have been found on Mars providing evidence that there were open bodies of water, not ...

Ancient ripples suggest a warmer, wetter past for the Red Planet that supported open water on its surface.

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned two new strategies to bring crucial samples from Mars to ...

extremely close to Mars, less than a degree away. Using even a smaller telescope or binoculars, watch the moon and Mars as soon as they’re above the horizon. Over the next few hours you’ll observe the ...

So close and yet so far ... to show the tiny rust-coloured disk of Mars slip behind the moon’s silver edge, and then reappear on the other side up to an hour or so later. But even if viewed ...

In what appears to be a jab at NASA, Rocket Lab this week unveiled its own plan to return rock and dust samples the space ...

Mars will make its closest approach to Earth this weekend while rising to its highest point in the night sky. On Sunday (Jan. 12), the Red Planet will make its close approach of Earth at 8:32 a.m ...

Mars will make its closest approach to Earth this weekend while rising to its highest point in the night sky. On Sunday (Jan. 12), the Red Planet will make its close approach of Earth at 8:32 a.m. EST ...

(European Space Agency via AP) This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury showing Nathair Facula & Fonteyn crater taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft ...