Scientists found the longest organic molecules ever on Mars — ancient carbon chains that resemble the building blocks of life ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

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.

ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's ...

Last week, the Perseverance Science Team were astonished by a strange rock comprised of hundreds of millimeter-sized spheres… ...

This suggests that Mars may have had an environment capable of sustaining ... with ferrihydrite particles and other minerals under simulated Martian conditions. "Martian dust is very small in ...

To mitigate global climate change, emissions of the primary culprit, carbon dioxide, must be drastically reduced. A newly developed process helps solve this problem: CO2 is directly split ...

This is a simulated view of Mars from a vantage point 2500 km above the colossal Valles Marineris canyon system, with enhanced colour and contrast (at this relatively low altitude, the planet’s polar ...

Iron oxide on Mars turned the planet red over billions of years ... They tested how light interacts with this simulated dust and compared it to spectral data collected on the planet.