Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

Chabahar, a quiet seaport in southeastern Iran, is known for its rocky beaches and dramatic, treeless hills often called the “Martian Mountains.” For a long time, it attracted tourists looking ...

A rare meteorite that traveled 36 million miles on its journey to Earth could become the most expensive space rock ever sold ...

An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...

50-Year-Old Martian Mountain Mystery May Have Finally Been Solved. Published Jan 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM EST. By . Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K.

The NASA Odyssey orbiter, which launched in 2001 from Cape Canaveral, snapped a 1st-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking ...

The volcano Odyssey spotted is known as Arsia Mons, one of three that forms the Tharsis Montes, or Tharsis Mountains.Though clouds composed of carbon dioxide are common on Mars, the Martian ...

Tens of millions of miles beyond Earth, a nuclear-powered, car-sized rover is climbing a Martian mountain. NASA's Curiosity rover, while investigating Mars' past, has snapped over 683,790 pictures ...

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...

NASA scientists say the images provide far more than just a striking never-before-seen view of the Martian geography. Studying the features detailed in Odyssey's photos could help NASA prepare for ...