In 2022 a group of nomadic meteorite hunters discovered a strange stone in the Sahara Desert. Called Teghaza 001, initial analysis by experts showed it was a meteorite from Mars. Now new research ...

Called Teghaza 001, the rock is from a piece of Mars that formed more than 4.1 billion years ago.

The Earth got its moon when a small planet collided with our planet more than 4 billion years ago. This impact hurled molten rock into space, which eventually coalesced to form the satellite we can ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.

Most scientists think that Earth and Mars took shape this way from rocky pieces swirling around the young sun around 4.5 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A rare dawn conjunction on Saturday, July 4, brings fourth ...

Perseverance has broken a major driving record on Mars, showing how far the rover has come during its mission.

Phobos, it seems, is not long for this universe - at least on the large cosmic timescale. Astronomers have long known that ...

Rover tracks can be seen on the Martian surface, left behind by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.

A new study suggests that Mars’s red colour is better matched by iron oxides containing water, known as ferrihydrite. Everyone knows Mars is the “red planet,” but a new study is reshaping scientists’ ...

There's been a lot of talk this week about our neighboring planet Mars. The main subject of wishful thinking for the dreamers on our own Earth, the ball of rock we affectionately call the Red Planet ...