Though Mars, the Red Planet, is a vast and inhospitable land today, scientists think it once resembled our very own Earth — the Blue Planet, if you will. More specifically, experts say Mars once had a ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the landscape. Mars is often portrayed as a dry, empty world, but the planet is ...

As we delve deeper into the mysteries of the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to reveal intriguing features on Mars’ surface. Among these are the captivating images of blue sand dunes ...

Mars today is a frozen, dusty desert. But if you look deep inside Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system on Mars and in ...

With its hills and distant mountains, the landscape seems somehow familiar yet at the same time eerily alien. The striking image was captured just recently by NASA’s Curiosity rover as it continues ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a mission update ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.

New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...

"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On Earth, wind can continually rearrange sand into migrating dunes and ripples. The picture on ...