A photo of the "mineral flower" alongside other diagenetic features on the surface of Mars captured by NASA's Curiosity rover on Feb. 25. Humans have been seeing strange things on the surface of Mars ...

A single metallic boulder sitting in an ancient Martian riverbed is forcing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about the Red Planet. The rock, an apparent interplanetary visitor, is not ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. There's ...

You're listening to All Things Considered from NPR News. The surface of Mars has a split personality. Even a casual observer will notice two distinct regions. In the south it appears craggy and ...

A reverse image search using Google Lens (archived here) led Snopes to a Feb. 25, 2022, article in the British tabloid The Sun (archived here), which described the "odd object" as having been captured ...

On record 2025 as one of the most amazing years in contemporary astronomy, providing findings that would turn our collective ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Last ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is on a quest to find life on Mars, or at least, evidence of it once existing there. As it continued to explore the martian surface last week, the roving laboratory stumbled ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's main goal is to detect faint light from distant galaxies, but it recently observed one of the brightest objects in the night sky: Mars. The space observatory captured ...

Someone alert Ziggy Stardust, there appear to be spiders on Mars. Strange black objects seen from 200 miles above the surface of Mars are generating interest and speculation that the unidentified ...