The tests also revealed that the ditches only develop on dunes with very fine, evenly sized sand grains. Coarser or more ...

"In spring, this ice begins to warm up and sublimate. The last remnants of this ice are located on the shaded side of the dune tops, and that is where the blocks break off from once the temperature is ...

On a day like any other, astronomers peered into the depths of space and found something utterly perplexing on the Martian ...

Space fans are over the moon about a major discovery on Mars - however, they don't know what it is quite yet. There's a lot of speculation after NASA tweeted they'll be telling us on Monday that a ...

CO₂ ice blocks on Mars may dig gullies as they slide and sublimate in the thin atmosphere. In lab experiments, scientists ...

According to Earth scientist Dr. Lonneke Roelofs, test results showed how simulating a natural process on the red planet ...

Blocks of frozen carbon dioxide sliding down Martian dunes may have carved the planet’s strange gullies, mimicking the work ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

But a mysterious feature made astronomers consider a parallel with the Dune planet, gullies carved in Martian sands looked dug by giant sandworms. Is Shai-Hulud behind the Martian mystery? Of course, ...

The research described in this paper gives proof of the assumption, previously made by other researchers, that blocks of CO2 ice can play a role in the creation of dune gullies on Martian dunes.

Astronomers may have figured out where the mysterious blobs embedded in Mars' mantle originated. The mysterious lumps have been preserved beneath a single-plate crust for billions of years in the Red ...

A lot of people are talking about a mysterious bright light on Mars. Two photos snapped last week by the Curiosity rover show the light and it looks as if it's beaming upward from the planet's surface ...