In summer 2026, NASA will commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the most consequential milestones in planetary ...

A dark patch in Mars' Utopia Planitia region has grown significantly since it was first photographed in 1976. Scientists have ...

Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars, has an interesting and complex history. One of the intriguing features is a field of mounds showing circular depressions at their ...

This oblique perspective view of Utopia Planitia on Mars was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express.

(top) Time-varying average frequency of the denoised GPR profile. Green segments denote the wedges of buried polygons. (bottom) Stacked amplitude spectrum produced by summing the time-varying average ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The wide strip of land in ...

Images from the German HRSC stereo camera show part of the 3300-kilometre-wide Utopia Planitia impact basin on Mars. Numerous land features here point to a very large deposit of subsurface water ice.

An engineering camera view of Mars as Tianwen-1 enters orbit, months ahead of the Zhurong rover landing attempt. Credit: CNSA/PEC HELSINKI — China succeeded with its first planetary landing attempt ...

Change is a crucial facet of the universe, but when it comes to planets, change is often measured in eons rather than years. Especially on planets that aren’t very active, like Mars. And yet, in just ...

It looks like the Martian winter may have claimed another victim, with reports that Chinese ground controllers have lost contact with the Zhurong rover. The solar-powered rover was put into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive dark patch lurking within a giant Martian crater has been creeping across the Red Planet's surface since the feature was ...