China's Zhurong rover, part of the 2021 Tianwen-1 mission, has found the first clear signs of ancient beach deposits under ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of water on ancient Mars with "rippled textures" and "landslide debris" in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, but what if the red planet actually delivered life to Earth in the first place?

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 ...