NASA’s Curiosity Rover continued its investigation of Mars with a mix of scientific observations and geological analyses. As ...

There’s really no substitute for ‘ground truth,’ and the Martian meteorites represent the only known samples from that planet ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

Mars' weird geology is making Perseverance's job more complicated Perseverance took a rock sample that crumbled to dust, confounding scientists.

A 54-pound Martian rock, known as NWA 16788, fetched a record $5.3 million at Sotheby’s, becoming the most expensive ...

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

Mars geology Mars is an intriguing planet from a geological and atmospheric perspective. It formed with the rest of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.

But my next guest isn’t thinking about Iowa’s black gold, she’s thinking about the reddish rocks and dust of Mars. Dr. Valerie Payré is an Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at ...

Further, unlike the moon, whose rocks contain nonoxidized iron metal, Mars has extensive deposits of oxidized iron (hematite, Fe 2 O 3), another sign of processing by liquid water [see “The Red ...

“Geology was something I absolutely loved because it explains how the world around us came to be over millions and billions of years,” Horgan said. “Doing that in space is even more interesting ...

For example, the map reveals that the surface of Mars is older than previously thought. Three times as much surface area formed during the Early Noachian Epoch — the first major geologic time ...