The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

Buttes and mesas in Mars' Chryse Planitia contain clay minerals made from liquid water interacting with the rock nearly 4 ...

The signs of wave ripples in the sandy shores of ancient lake beds, created as wind pushed water back and forth have been found on Mars providing evidence that there were open bodies of water, not ...

Living on Mars will be no easy feat. Building viable living quarters would require an inflatable habitat that can be covered ...

A puzzle about Mars has intrigued scientists for decades. The planet’s two hemispheres are strikingly different in structure.

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills ... Preserved ripples on Mars' surface. Credit: Mondro et al. Science Advances, January 2025 More ripples ...

The Martian dichotomy was discovered in the 1970s, when images from the Viking probes showed ... or catastrophe in the early ...

The fourth planet from the Sun, Mars is often called the Red Planet because its solid surface is covered with orange-red iron oxide, a material with a similar composition to rust. Mars is ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.