A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint ...

Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora would show up ...

Scientists used cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover to capture unprecedented views of the Red Planet's green glowing sky.

On Earth, they ripple across high-latitude skies in vibrant sheets of green, red, and violet. But with no global magnetic field to shape them, Mars experiences more chaotic, shattered auroral ...

It turns out that some of the rocks it found have green stains on them. Of course, this is Mars, the “Red Planet,” so no one expected to see anything like that color there. These are the first ...

Specifically, they are composed of large grains of olivine, the muddier less-gemlike version of peridot that tints so many of Hawaii’s beaches dark green ... science and Mars rover expert at Purdue ...

DESPITE its nickname of 'the Red Planet', mysterious green dots have been discovered in the sand on Mars. Nasa's Perseverance rover, which has been navigating Mars for nearly four years ...

In March 2024, for the first time, scientists observed a visible green aurora on Mars. Although scientists had already detected many different types of auroras on Mars, they had all appeared at ...

In similar rocks to those on Mars, green spots of this kind can be seen, and form when water runs through the sediment before it hardens into rock, which changes the chemical reaction and leaves ...

The model estimated Mars's subsurface water distribution down to 2 meters from the surface. Like a sponge, highly absorptive regolith in Mars's mid- and low latitudes retains substantial amounts ...