In a dramatic new discovery, scientists have identified over 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds on Mars, revealing that ...

Nearly two years into its mission, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues its groundbreaking exploration of Mars, pushing deeper into the planet’s geological and historical secrets. In this 21-month ...

NASA's Mariner 4 captured the first-ever close-up image of Mars on July 14, 1965. While waiting for the data to be processed ...

Looks like Mars might have had more water than anyone previously imagined.

Mars may not have always been the dry and dusty world we imagine. A staggering network of ancient riverbeds, spanning over 15 ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

For years, scientists have been looking for signs of liquid water just beneath the surface of Mars. New research recently published in Nature Communications may have dried up one of the most ...

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (500-428 BC) was the first person to hypothesize that the seeds of life are present ...

Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon Triton, and Comet 67P. These geological features, among the ...

Researchers focused on fluvial sinuous ridges, or inverted channels, winding through Noachis Terra, a region in Mars’ southern highlands. These features likely formed when river sediments solidified ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove ...