A team of planetary scientists has developed a promising new way to peer beneath the dusty surface of Mars and other ...

Curiosity has been the subject of countless selfies and images taken from space, but has never been photographed from Mars' own orbit. The reconnaissance orbiter, which has been circling Mars ...

Carbon dioxide is the main climate-regulating greenhouse gas on Earth, as it is on Mars and Venus. Its presence in the atmosphere traps heat from the sun, warming the climate. Until now ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has been spotted mid-expedition on the Martian surface by an orbiting spacecraft, marking what scientists believe is the first time a Mars orbiter has captured an image of the ...

1 mph. A photo snapped recently by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides a pretty cool visualization of what the rover has been up to so far this year, showing the tracks Curiosity left behind ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just snapped an off-Earth action shot the likes of which we've never seen before. On Feb. 28, MRO's HiRISE (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, for example, has the Mars Climate Sounder, which has collected data on carbon dioxide snow — aka dry ice — as it fell to the ground. The Phoenix lander also ...

Color images of the Red Planet captured by the Tianwen-1 orbiter have been released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Credit: China ...

Observations of large valley networks on today’s Mars suggest formation by flowing water. However, most climate models cannot sustain temperatures above freezing. To understand this contradiction, a ...