This isn’t your typical circus with clowns, elephants and magicians! It’s a band. But not just any band. They’re an alien band! Or, the Martian Circus, more specifically. MC, phone home. The Martian ...

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At first, figuring out how pebble-sized rocks organize themselves in evenly-spaced patterns in sand seemed simple and even intuitive. But once Andrew Leier, an assistant geoscience professor at the U ...

But on Sept. 19, during the 1,629th Sol (Martian day) of the rover's mission, the wandering robot came across an odd-looking boulder while exploring an area of Jezero dubbed "Vernodden." The unusual ...

Sapphire Canyon, a rock sample collected by NASA’s Mars rover, may hold the clearest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars. Scientists revealed that unusual dark markings on the rock, along with signs ...