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

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

Once Mars dried out, this rusty rock was broken down into dust over billions of years. Strong winds blew this dust all over the planet’s surface, gradually turning Mars red. Signatures of the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface of the ... when older rocks are broken down by liquid water.

Mar. 13, 2025 — Water once existed in abundance of at the surface of Mars. How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still unclear, according to a new ...

If you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope ... Those sheets "weighed down" the surface, compressing it. As the glaciers melted, the surface began to rise back up in a process called ...

Over billions of years, this rusty material has been broken down into dust and spread all ... Because of the absence of liquid water on Mars’ surface today, those rusty red minerals were thought ...

and so must have formed when Mars still had water on its surface. The ferrihydrite has kept its watery signature to the present day, despite being ground down and spread around the planet since ...

Scientists have discovered a lake of liquid water beneath the surface of Mars, raising huge questions about the possibility of alien life!

The model estimated Mars's subsurface water distribution down to 2 meters from the surface. Like a sponge, highly absorptive regolith in Mars's mid- and low latitudes retains substantial amounts ...

where it is cooler than at the surface and causes carbon dioxide in Mars' atmosphere to condense into clouds. Some of the ice crystals can be seen raining down on the surface as thick, white ...