On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ...

Salt water could be running down some slopes of Mars every spring, researchers suggest. Such a finding would suggest new directions to search for any life that still existed on the Red Planet.

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 ...

Researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in the soil. Their water storage capabilities may help us understand the change in water on Mars over time.

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

A new radar technique allowed the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to scan deep into the Martian surface and determine an ...

"It's possible that this might have come from an ancient northern ocean on Mars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thousands of ...

A decades-old investigation into the possibility of life on Mars – a question even David Bowie was asking during the Seventies – has had one of its most important pre-requisites finally fulfilled: ...

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NASA must have thought through the timing of their latest announcement. Only one day after the final Atlantis landing, the space agency revealed the exact details of their next major mission. Later ...