NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

The redness of Mars has made the planet one of the most recognizable in the solar system with its hue serving as a topic of ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 ...

Kaolinite is a soft, earthy, usually white, mineral produced by the chemical weathering of aluminium silicate minerals like ...

Mars’s signature red hue may not be due to hematite, as previously believed, but rather to ferrihydrite — an iron oxide that requires water to form. Using a combination of spacecraft data and ...

A recent study has revealed that the red color of Mars is due to ferrihydrite, an iron oxide mineral. This finding suggests ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Mars may have once hosted an ...

There are, to be fair, a lot of things we don't know about the geological history of Mars, but the discovery of scads of pure sulfur just hanging about on the Martian surface suggests that there's ...

Mars may have once had a vast, ice-free ocean, according to new evidence from China’s Zhurong rover. Using ground-penetrating ...