A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is likely what gives the planet its reddish hue.

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

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IISc’s Aloke Kumar has led groundbreaking research around space habitation. In 2020, his lab developed ‘space bricks’ using ...

A groundbreaking study, financed in part by NASA, reveals the mystery behind Mars' iconic red color, linking it to the presence of water-rich iron mineral ferrihydrite, suggesting a cooler, wetter, ...

Mars has tantalized many with the promise that it could be made to tolerate life. In this video we take a look at the many changes the planet would need to undergo to create the optimal conditions for ...

While the current atmosphere of Mars is too cold and thick to support liquid water, NASA missions over the years have found evidence that water once flowed on the Martian surface billions of years ago ...

With new data coming in from Mars, scientists have a new theory about why the planet is red. What does this mean for whether ...

Mars’ thick crust may have been a hidden engine of geological activity, producing granitic magmas and sustaining underground ...

Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records ...