Scientists have found seismic clues that suggest liquid water may be hiding beneath Mars' surface. By listening to the echoes of "marsquakes" — seismic waves rippling through Mars' crust — researchers ...

For years, scientists have been intrigued by mysterious dark streaks running down the slopes of Martian cliffs and craters. These marks, called slope streaks and recurring slope lineae (RSLs), have ...

The Perseverance rover has stumbled onto a Martian rock that looks nothing like the weathered stones around it, a solitary ...

For years, scientists have been looking for signs of liquid water just beneath the surface of Mars. The problem, though, is that the observations from various orbiting probes have been maddeningly ...

According to a deep-learning analysis, most dust avalanches on Mars are driven by wind and dust, not by impacts or quakes.

Satellite images of the Red Planet suggest scientists were wrong about these strange Martian features. First identified in the 1970s by NASA's Viking mission, long, dark markings snake down Martian ...

Scientists have discovered what could be signs of flowing water on Mars, a development that could amend previous theories that liquid Martian water is a thing of the distant past. According to Georgia ...

Science writer David Baron explores the initial interest in whether there was life on Mars in his latest book, "The Martians: ...

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Laurie Leshin fell in love with Mars when she was 10 years old. It was 1976, the year NASA landed its twin Viking probes on the surface of the Red Planet, beaming back the first closeups of the rocky, ...