For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s ...

Ingenuity proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a helicopter can operate on another planet. Over 72 flights, the little ...

The Mars Volta surprised concertgoers with a setlist of new material while opening for Deftones in Portland on Tuesday night (February 25th). It would appear that the songs are from the experimental ...

The Noachian period of Martian history, from 4.1 to 3.7 billion years ago, is the poster child for a wet Mars. There is abundant evidence from orbital images of valley networks and mineral maps ...

The Noachian period of Martian history, from 4.1 to 3.7 billion years ago, is the poster child for a wet Mars. There is abundant evidence from orbital images of valley networks and mineral maps ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with ...

Now, a new discovery could draw us one step closer to finding out whether life once existed on Mars. A Chinese rover that landed on the red planet in 2021 has found evidence of underground beaches ...

One proposed solution is that volcanic activity reshaped Mars’ spin axis and topography long after an ocean had formed. “Because the spin axis of Mars has changed, the shape of Mars has changed. And ...

If it did exist, Deuteronilus likely disappeared just one billion years into Mars's 4.5 billion year history — but this is plenty of time for primordial life forms to have thrived inside it.

Many scientists think that Mars used to have an ocean that covered up to a third of the planet, but the theory is still debated. New data from China's Zhurong rover strengthens the case for an ...

The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point. Today, we know of Mars as a cold, dry desert, with patches of subterranean ice and ice caps at its poles. Billions of years ago ...