Though Mars, the Red Planet, is a vast and inhospitable land today, scientists think it once resembled our very own Earth — the Blue Planet, if you will. More specifically, experts say Mars once had a ...

Mars is no longer just a story about a single lost ocean or one fleeting window for biology. Taken together, recent rover ...

Present-day Mars is a barren and inhospitable planet, but it may have once had sandy beaches and tranquil ocean vistas. According to findings published on February 24 in the Proceedings of the ...

Did Mars once have life as we know it deep in its ancient past? A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences might be one step closer to answering that question as an ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

China’s Mars rover Zhurong has found additional evidence to support the theory that Mars was once a vast ocean world. The new findings include tracing some ancient coastlines that may have once ...

Life on Earth might not be as Earthly as we think. A recent research published in The Conversation explores a revived and ...

Was Mars a much more habitable planet billions of years ago? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as an international team of researchers led by Curtin University ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

China’s Zhurong Mars rover has found evidence of an ancient coastline on the red planet. The coastline in the southern Utopia region, detailed in the journal Scientific Reports, was likely left by a ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface, billions of years ago. Today, ...