A new study has examined how future human missions to Mars could access one of the planet's most vital resources—water. The ...

New evidence of ancient rivers suggests Mars may have been a "blue planet," thanks to an ocean spanning its entire northern ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this image from the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered signs of an ancient Martian shoreline, hinting at long-lasting lakes, subsurface water activity, and conditions that may once have supported life on the Red ...

The Perseverance rover is continuing its mission to find clues about the geological past of Mars. The rover’s main goals are ...

Bright white rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance rover hint at ancient Martian rain lasting millions of years, raising new questions about how wet Mars once was and what those conditions might mean.

How long did Mars have habitable conditions for life? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets hopes to address as a team of scientists from New York ...

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the planet's violently varying tilt may be a key factor. When you purchase ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

This radar map shows the thickness of the south polar layered deposits of Mars (purple represents the thinnest areas and red the thickest). The dark circle is the area poleward of 87 degrees south ...