My recent entry into the NameExoWorlds Contest has reminded me of the time I tried, and nearly succeeded, to name the deepest crater on Mars, and a new tool has allowed me to explore this feature ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spots a scattering of bizarre bright white pebbles of a mysterious composition and origin.

Perseverance, which has been roaming Mars since July 2020, found the rock on a flat sandy plane above the deep sloping sides of the 1,000metre-deep crater in August. The Jezero Crater is thought ...

China’s Zhurong rover has found compelling evidence of a shoreline from a short-lived ancient ocean on Mars. This new ...

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

The scientists looked at the basins on Mars and concluded that the craters were formed while the dynamo of Mars ... and one ...

It sent back images of what the space agency said was a "googly eye" looking down onto the red planet. Of course it wasn't actually a giant eye floating through space, but was in fact one of Mars' ...

Researchers are particularly interested in understanding whether Mars was habitable, and if so, during what period.