NASA's Perseverance rover captured Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the pre-dawn sky over the Red Planet on ...

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Mars is dry, with little atmosphere, and no liquid water on its surface. It is half the size of Earth, lacks a planetary magnetic field, and does not appear to have active plate tectonics or volcanic ...

The NASA-funded team led by SMU researchers thinks that their small, lightweight device developed to measure spaceship velocity will improve the odds of successful landings on Mars and other planets.( ...

The finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests prebiotic chemistry may have advanced further on Mars than previously observed. Scientists probed an ...

NASA Mars satellite uncovers markings 'like paint ... a massive canyon around the size of Italy, which is situated between Tharsis and Valles Marineris. The area surrounding Tharsis is one of ...

The U.S. space agency's Perseverance and Curiosity rovers, both about the size of a car, have spent years scouring different regions of Mars to find evidence that the now-barren planet may once ...

By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other ...

Hundreds of basketball-size space rocks slam into Mars each year, leaving behind impact craters and causing rumblings across the red planet, according to new research. Mission planners could use ...