From its perch in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high mountain, you can see over an expanse of plains, called Aeolis Palus, ...

Scientists are confident Mars was once abundant with water, as seen in massive flood-carved channels, ancient river valleys, ...

Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, again raising the possibility of microbial life.

Mars might hold enough subsurface water to cover its surface in a global ocean between 0.62 to 1.24 miles (1 to 2 kilometers) ...

Mars is known as the Red Planet, but scientists are still learning about what gives the planet its distinctive color. New ...

InSight landed on Mars in November 2018 and was charged with digging into the Martian topsoil, listening to winds and dust devils on the planet’s surface, and—perhaps most productively ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface of the Red Planet—and found evidence that Mars may have once been warm, wet ...

Seismic readings of the interior of Mars strongly suggest large quantities of water buried 6 to 12 miles underground.

It’s long been all but settled science that Mars was once home to copious amounts of water. Its surface is stamped with ocean and sea basins and etched with ancient riverbeds, deltas ...

The first thing most people think of when they consider Mars is its deep red color. The Romans associated the planet with their god of war because it reminded them of blood while the ...

Mars may have once been a paradise with Earth ... examined data from the layers of soil that comprise the Red Planet’s surface — discovering formations that strongly indicate the presence ...