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12-mile-tall volcano on Mars punches through clouds | Space photo of the day for June 9, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captures one of the Red Planet's biggest volcanoes peeking over clouds at dawn.

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The nearly circular 75-mile-wide (120 kilometers) Deuteronilus Cavus crater lies in a transitional zone between Mars' rugged southern highlands and smoother northern lowlands.

European Mars orbiter spies crumbling crater 'soaked in layers of Martian history' (photo)

By Samantha Mathewson published

The Mars Express probe captured a striking new view of a Martian crater that holds clues to the planet's dynamic history spanning billions of years.

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What's at the center of Mars? Maybe the stench of rotten eggs

By Keith Cooper published

The core of the Red Planet may be filled with sulfur.

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Artist's illustration depicting the terraforming of Mars — turning into a more Earth-like world.

Turning the Red Planet green? It's time to take terraforming Mars seriously, scientists say

By Stefanie Waldek published

A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint for a potential path forward.

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three orbs: earth, the moon and mars with the text "moon & mars" between them

How to watch the 2025 Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit May 28 and 29 (video)

By Samantha Mathewson published

The 2025 Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit (H2M2) will be held May 28 and 29 in Washington, D.C., and will include panels discussing the future of human space exploration.

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Engineers conduct a thermal vacuum test with JAXA's MMX Mars moon sample-return spacecraft. JAXA posted this image on X on May 15, 2025.

Japan tests its Mars moon sample-return probe ahead of 2026 launch (photo)

By Andrew Jones published

Japan is putting its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft through a series of tests ahead of its launch to Mars next year.

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On the road to Krokodillen: One of the navigation cameras on NASA’s Perseverance captured the rover’s tracks coming from an area called “Witch Hazel Hill,” on May 13, 2025, the 1,503rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

Perseverance rover rolls onto 'Crocodile' plateau on Mars to hunt for super-old rocks

By Mike Wall published

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest and most intriguing rocks on the Red Planet.

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A view of Mars' surface with lots of dark streaks toward the center, going down vertically offscreen.

Dark streaks on Mars may not come from water after all, scientists say

By Victoria Corless published

Satellite images of the Red Planet suggest scientists were wrong about these strange Martian features.

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The first visible-light image of a green aurora on Mars, left, taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover. A comparison image, right, shows the night sky without the aurora but featuring the Martian moon Deimos.

Perseverance Mars rover becomes 1st spacecraft to spot auroras from the surface of another world

By Mike Wall published

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover made skywatching history in March, becoming the first robot to witness auroras from the surface of another planet.

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On a flat, slightly rocky ground, there is a sample tube laying there. A rover's wheel is seen toward the top right.

Mars Sample Return now! (op-ed)

By Bruce Jakosky, Scott Hubbard published

The White House's 2026 budget request axes NASA's long-held plan to bring Mars samples to Earth for analysis. Here's why that cancellation would be a mistake.

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