| Artist’s concept of the ancient lake in Gale crater. A new study from researchers in Japan suggests that ancient rains on ...

The recent detection of potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars by NASA’s Perseverance rover has sparked renewed interest in the planet’s habitability. The rover’s analysis of a Martian rock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With its reddish-hued surface and surroundings, Mars has more than earned its colorful nickname. But how would the Red Planet ...

Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a frozen desert where even a thin wisp of air struggles to hold on. NASA’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mars, with its rust-hued surface, is known as the red planet for a reason. Along the way, Curiosity has made some extraordinary ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less than a meter beneath the surface, close enough to be harvested for water, ...

New research published in Nature Communications identifies an iron sulfate on Mars that may represent a brand-new mineral. The paper is titled "Characterization of ferric hydroxysulfate on Mars and ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid.