New research shows that dry ice blocks, not water or life, may be responsible for the mysterious gullies carved into Mars’ ...

Strange, sinuous gullies etched into the dunes of Mars are finally giving up their secrets. These gouges, new experiments ...

Blocks of frozen carbon dioxide sliding down Martian dunes may have carved the planet’s strange gullies, mimicking the work ...

Now, as detailed in a new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Utrecht University Earth scientist ...

With its hills and distant mountains, the landscape seems somehow familiar yet at the same time eerily alien. The striking image was captured just recently by NASA’s Curiosity rover as it continues ...

The research described in this paper gives proof of the assumption, previously made by other researchers, that blocks of CO2 ...

CO₂ ice blocks on Mars may dig gullies as they slide and sublimate in the thin atmosphere. In lab experiments, scientists ...

"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." Though Mars, the Red Planet, is a vast and inhospitable land today, scientists think it ...

NASA has just shared one of its most impressive Mars panoramas to date. Captured by its trusty Curiosity rover, the panorama (below) of the Martian landscape comprises 44 images taken by the rover’s ...

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NASA’s Perseverance rover faced a tense situation on Mars when its drill bit became lodged in a layer of rock, delaying its ...