When you are scheduled to participate in Science Operations for the rover's weekend plan, you know it's going to be a busy ...

Mars, the other world, followed a different path. Today the Martian surface is hostile to life as we know it, but as this scientific story goes, Mars may have once hosted a rich abundance of microbes.

Valles Marineris in imagery captured the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Global topography: NASA/GSFC CTX global mosaic: ...

Strange, dark streaks on Martian slopes that once hinted at flowing water are now believed to be dry dust slides, revealed ...

Data from the Mars Express orbiter has been used to create a visualization of "a vast system of deep and steep valleys that stretches out for around 1190 km," on Mars called Noctis Labyrinthus, ...

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars.

A view of the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars on May 11, 2025. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) It is currently late autumn in Gale Crater, the region of Mars where Curiosity is exploring, meaning even ...

Visit Mars as it might have looked billions of years ago. Not frozen and dry, but wet, warm, and alive with flowing water. Across vast highlands near the Martian equator, deep river-like valleys ...

The first image in visible light of green auroras on Mars (left), compared to the night sky of Mars without auroras. NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS / SSI On March 18, 2024, NASA’s Perseverance ...

This artist’s concept depicts the early Martian environment (right) – believed to contain liquid water and a thicker atmosphere – versus the cold, dry environment seen at Mars today (left). Credit: ...

That alert was noticed by space physicist Christina Lee of the University of California, Berkeley, the space weather lead for NASA's MAVEN Mars orbiter. Lee, in turn, issued a notice to other Mars ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image by NASA’s Perseverance shows evidence ...