The Ordnance Survey has officially gone off-world. The British mapping agency has released a Mars map, created with the help of NASA open data.
The Mars rover Curiosity made discoveries after it's conducted its first ever up-close study of extraterrestrial sand dunes
It turns out that there may be evidence for more recent clay formation on Mars, which may tell researchers a bit more about the Red Planet and show a bit more about the conditions that may have once been hospitable to Martian life.
Mars is blanketed by a thin, carbon dioxide atmosphere. Now, researchers are looking at how this atmosphere became so thin and what happened to the planet's missing carbon.
Dust devils may actually help guide future missions to Mars. Scientists have used a seismometer to detect the tiny tilts of the ground as dust devils passed by, which may tell them a bit more about the dust devils on Mars.
Mars may not have weather like can be found on Earth, but it certainly may have its own version of weather: acid fog.
After news of extraterrestrials, the public is primed for more sightings. In this case, though, it's a Buddha statue on Mars-sort of.
Researchers have used the ChemCam laser instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover to reveal that the Red Planet has a crust that's surprisingly similar to Earth's granitic continental crust rocks.
