“The presence of liquid water [on Mars] is a broad topic that includes rains, rivers, lakes, as well as oceans,” says Ezat ...

For the first time, a Mars rover has crossed alien ground following a route drawn up not by human engineers, but by artificial intelligence. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover recently completed a set of ...

When NASA’s Perseverance rover dropped through the thin Martian atmosphere and settled into Jezero Crater, it did more than stick a precision landing. For the first time, a robot on another world ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists revealed Wednesday that Mars’ innermost core appears to be a solid hunk of metal just like Earth’s. The Chinese-led research team based their findings on seismic ...

ESA's first mission to another world, the Mars Express orbiter, began circling the Red Planet on June 2, 2003. Ever since, ...

The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet's climate to support life as we know it — has long belonged to the realm of science fiction. But a new study argues that it's time to take ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold.

First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously, its ...

geological signatures indicate that around 3.4 billion years ago, a connected oceanic system existed on a planetary scale, rather than just isolated lakes.

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The Chinese-led research team based its findings on seismic readings from NASA's InSight lander on Mars, which recorded more than 1,300 marsquakes before shutting down in 2022. The spacecraft landed ...