On Sols 4575 and 4576 of its mission, NASA’s Curiosity rover reached what its team is calling one of the most stable and ...

Sunrise on Gale Crater paints Mount Sharp in rusty gold. Two hundred million miles away, back on Earth, a room of bleary-eyed ...

The recent discovery of a key mineral has reshaped our scientific understanding of what Mars looked like in the past.

A photo taken by Curiosity rover in 2013 shows a mushroom-like object on Mars. NASA did not pursue it further, and now that ...

In his high school yearbook, Horton Newsom wrote down his plan for the future: "College and then Mars." Now, a 100-meter-wide landmark on the Red Planet bears his name. For decades, Newsom devoted his ...

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Mars isn’t a bright, fire-engine red, but the iron oxide in its rocks makes it appear redder than other planets, especially ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has released mind-blowing images of Mars that are shaking up the internet. With stunning detail from 140 million miles away, these visuals are unlike anything we've seen before.

The Perseverance rover finds a mysterious black rock on Mars, “Skull Hill,” which intrigues scientists because of its ...

Jezero Crater, once a lake bed some 3.5 billion years ago, has become the focus of NASA’s search for signs of past life. It’s ...

Mars has captivated humans since we first set ... with a suite of sophisticated instruments. Its target is Jezero Crater, site of an ancient river delta, and a likely location for ancient life ...

This story appears in the March 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. Jupiter is the king, Uranus is the comedian, Pluto is the underdog. But of all the planetary bodies in our solar system ...