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The Mars InSight lander's final selfie

Mars InSight lander sends bittersweet goodbye selfie after 4 years of revealing the Red Planet's mysteries

By Brandon Specktor last updated

The robot that made 'Marsquake' a part of our vocabulary is finally dead in the Martian dust.

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An illustration of the Mars InSight lander, which picked up the strongest Marsquake on record in May.

Massive earthquake that shook Mars is 5 times stronger than any other

By Jamie Carter published

With death closing in, NASA's Mars InSight Lander picked up a record-breaking Marsquake in May.

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An illustration of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the solar system.

'Mars' interior is not behaving,' active mantle plume reveals

By Joanna Thompson published

In a first, planetary geologists describe an active mantle plume on the surface of Mars.

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A dust storm rampages over Mars in 2007. Recent recordings from the Mars Perseverance rover could reveal how Martian dust storms form, and what they're made of.

Listen to a Martian dust storm engulf the Perseverance rover in eerie, world-first audio recording

By Stephanie Pappas published

An unprecedented audio recording could reveal key details about extreme weather on the Red Planet.

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Mars reappears from behind the lunar surface after being eclipsed by the moon for around an hour.

See Mars 'peek out' from behind the moon in stunning eclipse photo

By Harry Baker published

An astrophotographer has captured a highly detailed image of the Red Planet reappearing from behind the moon after a lunar occultation.

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An artist's interpretation of a killer asteroid exploding on impact with the Red Planet.

Colossal 'planet killer' asteroid sparked mega-tsunami on Mars, and now we know where it landed

By Harry Baker published

Planetary scientists have pinpointed the likely location of a massive asteroid impact that triggered an enormous tsunami on the Red Planet around 3.4 billion years ago.

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An artist's impression of Mars' moons Phobos (left) and Deimos (right) orbiting the Red Planet.

Mars may be slowly ripping its largest moon apart

By Harry Baker published

A new study has revealed that the weird parallel grooves on the surface of Mars' largest moon Phobos could be a sign that the Red Planet's gravity is ripping the satellite apart.

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A massive impact crater near the Martian equator revealed blocks of water ice at lower latitudes than have ever been seen before.

Massive Martian meteor impact was largest ever recorded in solar system

By Donavyn Coffey published

A magnitude 4 marsquake that rocked the Red Planet in 2021 is the result of a massive meteor impact, two new studies revealed.

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D. radiodurans (affectionately known as "Conan the Bacterium") is particularly well-suited to surviving Mars' harsh environment.

Bacteria could survive underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years, new study finds

By Stephanie Pappas published

New research suggests that signs of ancient Martian life could be out there – or rather, hidden just beneath the Martian surface, safe from harmful radiation.

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Mars in late spring. William Herschel believed the light areas were land and the dark areas were oceans.

First Martian life likely broke the planet with climate change, made themselves extinct

By Ben Turner published

The finding comes from a modeling study that assumes ancient Martian life was similar to that on Earth during the same time period.

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