Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, again raising the possibility of microbial life.

Frigid water helped paint Mars red and may have shaped a vast coastline, two new studies into the planet’s history reveal. Scientists have detected a possible ancient beach in Mars’ northern ...

The planet Mars is famous for its rusty red colour. But how did our closest planet neighbour turn this shade? For years scientists thought they had the answer, but new research suggests it could ...

Mars is easily identifiable in the night sky by its prominent red hue. Thanks to the fleet of spacecraft that have studied the planet over the last decades, we know that this red color is due to ...

Pollux and Castor and the brilliant planet Mars. Since Mars is the brightest of the three points, I suggest we call it "The Mars Triangle." The brilliant yellow-orange light of Mars (magnitude ...

Ferrihydrite typically forms quickly in the presence of cool water and so must have formed early on ancient Mars when the planet was still wet. "We are not the first to consider ferrihydrite as ...

“The presence of these deposits requires that a good swath of the planet, at least ... among scientists and cartographers due to Mars’s geography, which suggests a large northern ocean ...

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 ...

I come correct with good news and glad tidings, my dudes. Mars — our planet of will, energy, sexuality, and action, getting it done and getting it on — is at long last going direct.

"Mars is still the Red Planet. It’s just that our understanding of why Mars is red has been transformed." Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as ...

If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...