If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to achieve this could be to bombard the Red Planet with water-rich asteroids.

This image, taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the patterns inside a Mars crater. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona High-resolution satellite images have revealed dripping paint ...

The hill is part of the Jezero Crater, a massive 28-mile-wide basin that scientists believe once held a lake. NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted a mysterious rock dubbed “Skull Hill” on Mars ...

In a study co-authored by a Texas A&M University scientist, researchers have revealed new insights into the geological history of Mars's Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA's Perseverance rover.

In Gale Crater, Curiosity found nearly pure crystalline siderite, an iron carbonate mineral, filling a gap in the previously low quantities of carbonates detected on Mars. The discovery suggests ...

“To get the most bang for the buck, NASA decided to send it to the place on Mars called the Gale Crater, because it was the tallest stack of sediments on the planet,” Tutolo says. The central ...

Since 2021, Perseverance has been exploring Mars' Jezero Crater, using its mobile laboratory to support the work of scientists around the world. Tice and his team, in particular, have been using ...

Diverse and highly differentiated lava suite in Jezero crater, Mars: Constraints on intracrustal magmatism revealed by Mars 2020 PIXL. Science Advances , 2025; 11 (4) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr2613 ...