Mars has many weird geological features, from deep underground cave-like systems formed by the passage of lava to global dust storms which can cover the entire planet. It has strange features on its ...

Mars has spiders unlike anything else in the Solar System. Between the ocher dunes, across the scars of impacts, long-legged shadows appear to scuttle across the dust. They aren't actual, living ...

Mysterious gullies on the surface of Mars, long puzzling scientists, appear to have been carved by burrowing blocks of CO₂ ice, according to a recent study that describes this mechanism as an ...

While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of ...

Mars is often described as silent, barren, and still. But beneath its dusty surface and cold skies, something unusual has been happening, something that no spacecraft had ever sensed before. As NASA’s ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found an odd zebra-striped rock while exploring Jezero Crater on Mars in September 2024. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU On Mars, some 120 million miles away in space right ...

NASA's Curiosity rover captured this Mars selfie in 2020. If NASA’s Curiosity rover could mail a postcard from Mars, its latest would probably read, “Dear Earth—Crazy landscape! Check out these wild ...

For years, scientists staring at Mars through the eyes of orbiting spacecraft noticed something strange: a mysterious signal in the light spectrum that didn’t match any known mineral. That puzzling ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA's Curiosity Rover has unveiled a breathtaking 360° panorama of the ...

Perseverance is exploring Mars’ sandy ripples, strange frozen waves that could reveal how wind still shapes the planet. Along the way it uncovered unusual helmet-shaped rocks, sparking new questions ...