Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Animation by IFLScience Phobos is 27 by 22 by 18 kilometers (17 miles by 14 miles by 11 miles), which is tiny, but it orbits very close to Mars – just 9,000 ...

You can see Phobos' potato-like shape. Even Mars rovers like to chase solar eclipses. On Sept. 30, NASA's Perseverance rover turned its Left Mastcam-Z camera toward the sky and photographed a ...

(via BBC Earth) Mars and it's moon Phobos are being pulled closer and closer together by complex gravitational forces, which is predicted to eventually result in a collision. But Professor Brian Cox ...

New research suggests Mars' missing atmosphere -- which dramatically diminished 3.5 billion years ago -- could be locked in the planet's clay-covered crust. Water on Mars could have set off a ...

Mars pareidolia strikes again. An image captured by the Perseverance rover in the course of its duties is one of the grisliest yet: it looks, for all the world, like a desiccated, decaying human ...

We explore how long it takes to get to Mars and the factors that affect a journey to the Red Planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. When Mars lost its atmosphere billions of years ago, it transformed from a planet that could have ...

Where exactly did Mars' atmosphere go? This question has been a central mystery of Mars' 4.6-billion-year history. For two MIT geologists, the answer may lie in the planet's clay. In a paper ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered a treasure trove of diverse and intriguing rocks while exploring an ancient river channel on Mars, providing scientists with new insights into the Red ...

Amid the mundane pebbly terrain of Mars' surface, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spotted something remarkable: a strange, striped object the agency is now calling the "zebra rock ...

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 ...

Bethesda has announced and released a new update for DOOM + DOOM II on Nintendo Switch, introducing a vast selection of improvements and fixes that should make the pair even better than before ...