Planetary geologists reply that these impressions usually result from pareidolia, the tendency for the brain to see familiar shapes in random patterns, a tendency Carl Sagan long ago called an ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...

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 ...

The Soroya Ridge was the recent destination in NASA's Perseverance rover's journey to explore the landscape of Mars.

NASA's Perseverance rover has captured an image of a turtle-shaped rock formation in Mars' Jezero Crater, sparking ...

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 ...

A huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the red planet. The discovery, based on observations by a European spacecraft, generated ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover is continuing to explore a boundary visible from orbit dividing bright, fractured outcrop from darker, smoother regolith (also known as a contact). The team has called this ...

Images of knobbly rocks and rounded hills are delighting scientists as NASA’s Curiosity rover climbs Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall) mountain within the 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer-wide) ...

U.S. Geological Survey releases huge amounts of Mars data in ready-to-use formats. This will allow scientists and the public to view Mars at high resolution with unprecedented ease. There is a huge ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A new study has raised some speculation about whether or not parts of Mars can allow life ...