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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has stumbled across an unusual sight: a stack of rocks on the Martian surface. How did they end up this way? Did Perseverance knock them over? So many questions.

Some animals can move efficiently beneath granular surfaces. These include the sandfish (Scincus scincus), a lizard native to the Sahara. It can burrow into the sand and then literally "swim" through ...

Watch footage of China's Zhurong rover moving on the Martian surface. It was captured by a camera the rover deployed on Mars. Also, listen to audio the rover recorded during it deployment onto the ...

In the region where the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will search for signs of life, clay deposits extend beyond previous ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is living up to its name as its total distance traveled approaches the length of a marathon. Over the past five years, this intrepid explorer has traversed more than 26.05 ...

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MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...

China’s Mars mission revealed strange discoveries on the red planet that continue raising disturbing questions among scientists and space researchers around the world. Unusual geological formations, ...