NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just captured its first image of the Curiosity rover driving along the red planet’s surface. The 2,000-pound Mars rover is shown as a dark speck in the ...

DDHQ/The Hill’s average had his approval rating above 50 percent for the first days of his presidency. By late April, his average approval rating had fallen under 45 percent. The averages ...

Perhaps the best known of all comets is Halley, correctly pronounced so that it rhymes with rally, not daily. It is named after the 17th-18th century astronomer Edmond Halley. This familiar ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just snapped an off-Earth action shot the likes of which we've never seen before. On Feb. 28, MRO's HiRISE (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment ...

Theories include it smashing onto the Red Planet's surface as a meteorite, or being carried from elsewhere on Mars. Skull Hill's dark colour is reminiscent of a type of space rock – an iron ...

NASA scientists have been left baffled after the Perseverance rover captured a bizarre image on Mars that looks eerily like a skull perched on a hilltop. Dubbed "Skull Hill" by the team ...

Theories include it smashing onto the Red Planet's surface as a meteorite, or being carried from elsewhere on Mars. Skull Hill’s dark colour is reminiscent of a type of space rock – an iron ...

Alternatively, NASA suggests that Skull Hill could be an igneous rock eroded from a nearby outcrop or ejected from an impact crater. 'On Earth and Mars, iron and magnesium are some of the main ...

There is evidence that at least some water existed on the surface of Mars around 4bn years ago. Exactly where this water came from, however, remains a mystery. Some theories suggest that ancient ...

He has no desire to live on Mars. “I can’t wait to get back to Earth,” my passenger said. “I don’t know how you can live here.” We were cruising along the red plain in my big treader ...

The dark stone looks different to the usual Red Planet rocks (Picture: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/ASU) Mars may be our nearest ... its way down lower ‘Witch Hazel Hill’ on the crater rim.

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...