Scientists are confident Mars was once abundant with water, as seen in massive flood-carved channels, ancient river valleys, ...

More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have announced ambitious plans to send a mission to Mars in 2026 and 2028. It’s not going to ...

Water once existed in abundance of at the surface of Mars. How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still unclear, according to a new analysis.

World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records ...

A study suggests Mars takes its red hue from a type of mineral that forms in cool water, which could reveal insights about whether Mars was ever able to support life.

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is likely what gives the planet its reddish hue.

N ew research suggests that Mars' missing atmosphere, long a mystery for planetary scientists, could be hiding within the planet's clay-rich surface.This surprising discovery sheds light on how ...

A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

“Since this water-containing rust blankets most of the Martian surface ... formation on Mars required the presence of both oxygen — whether from the atmosphere or other sources — and ...