An curved arrow pointing right. Unlike the asteroid impact that catapulted the dinosaurs into extinction on Earth, a gigantic asteroid crater on Mars may have actually been responsible for ...

The molecules, while not a direct sign of life, still signal the existence of complex chemistry on the Red Planet.

Some of the unusual rocks carry stories about water on Mars. One has hints of long-gone microbes. All tell of a dynamic, complex planet.

The dust devil was about 210 feet wide, NASA said, but likely didn't last long after consuming the smaller whirlwind.

The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins of life in our universe—if we can get them back to Earth. Clouds of ...

The thought of a colony of giant spiders ... may be an old impact crater – suggesting that the geometric ridges may be magma intrusions that rose through Mars’s crust after it was hit by ...

Reports from NASA’s Curiosity rover reveal evidence of ancient liquid water on Mars, challenging previous models. Images from Gale Crater show wave-like ripples, similar to Earth’s lakebeds.

Has there ever been life on Mars? Scientists have pondered this question ... ancient riverbed and strewn uphill on the rim of Jezero Crater—are several billion years old. He told Newsweek ...

Since it arrived on Mars in 2020, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been scouring the bottom of Jezero crater, a vast ancient lake probably formed by an asteroid impact. But last year, the rover ...