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Perseverance rover spots peculiar 'spider egg' rock on Mars — and scientists have no idea how it got thereOn March 11, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying its formation could help us look for fossilized remains of microbial life on Mars.
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Mars was once a 'vacation-style' beach planet, Chinese rover scans revealChina's Zhurong rover has found evidence of an ancient shoreline buried deep beneath the planet. That could point to an ocean, a beach, and to life.
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Mars' red color explained by surprising new researchNew research has revealed that Martian dust's red hue comes from reactions that occurred in wet — not dry — conditions, and it could have implications for the possibility of life on the planet.
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NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock — and it could rewrite the Red Planet's historyNASA's Curiosity rover photographed remnants of rippling waves in an ancient Martian lakebed, proving that the Red Planet had open water for longer in its history than previously thought.
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Space photo of the week: Dry ice 'geysers' erupt on Mars as spring hits the Red PlanetNASA shares an iconic image of carbon dioxide ice erupting in geysers when Martian winter turns to spring.
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Mars quiz: Is your knowledge of the Red Planet out of this world?Quiz Think you know Mars? Test your knowledge of our neighboring planet's size, surface, history and more.
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We may finally know what causes Mars' gigantic, planet-wide dust stormsMars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests.
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'Marsquakes' may solve 50-year-old mystery about the Red PlanetData collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" that splits the Red Planet into two distinct halves.
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How to watch the full Wolf Moon 'swallow' Mars in the sky tonight — no telescope requiredTonight (Jan. 13), bright Mars will disappear behind the full Wolf Moon for several hours before reappearing on the other side. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars visible from the U.S. this year. Here's how to get the most out of it.
