If you're the kind of person who can spend hours upon hours clicking around Google Earth, there's a new toy for you. NASA has just released the most detailed 3D map of Mars ever made. Created by the ...

In a herculean effort, Caltech's Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization has created what has now been deemed the most detailed 3D map of Mars ever made. The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars map ...

Ancient Mars is coming into sharper focus as a planet laced with rivers, deltas and vast drainage basins, and that new map of ...

Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of ...

Mars exploration has taken a leap forward with the unveiling of the Subsurface Water Ice Mapping (SWIM) project's fourth and most detailed map of potential subsurface water ice locations on the Red ...

A new study has raised some speculation about whether or not parts of Mars can allow life to grow. The study, published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, highlights the potential of ...

Ancient Mars is starting to look less like a scattered patchwork of dried-up valleys and more like a planet once ruled by continent-scale rivers. For the first time, scientists have traced giant ...

One of the challenges of sending human explorers to Mars is that, due to the logistics of the journey, they will have to be on the planet’s surface for considerably longer than the missions of a few ...

NASA scientists have discovered additional evidence that Mars once underwent plate tectonics, slow movement of the planet’s crust, like the present-day Earth. A new map of Mars’ magnetic field made by ...

The USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona recently released a series of geologic Martian maps that could all be impactful to future missions to the Red Planet. Does size matter? In ...

A newly released image from ESA’s Mars Express shows the north pole of Mars during the red planet’s summer solstice. All the carbon dioxide ice has gone, leaving just a bright cap of water ice. A ...

Curiosity rover, on its 3572nd sol, captured a panorama of a sulfate-enriched region on Mount Sharp, Mars, identified earlier by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The rover navigated challenging ...