The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

Buttes and mesas in Mars' Chryse Planitia contain clay minerals made from liquid water interacting with the rock nearly 4 ...

The signs of wave ripples in the sandy shores of ancient lake beds, created as wind pushed water back and forth have been found on Mars providing evidence that there were open bodies of water, not ...

The surface in Mars' northern and southern hemisphere is ... the divide since the 1970s when NASA's Viking orbiter returned images of the Red Planet's unusual surface. The study published in ...

This feature has been studied since NASA’s Viking orbiter captured images ... shaped Mars’ crust over time. Heat rising from the interior altered the planet’s surface billions of years ...

SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills ... Preserved ripples on Mars' surface. Credit: Mondro et al. Science Advances, January 2025 More ripples ...

Ancient ripples suggest a warmer, wetter past for the Red Planet that supported open water on its surface.

One of my gripes with "The Martian" movie was the depiction of the winds on Mars. The lower air density means that the sort ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.

Scientists at London's Natural History Museum have discovered mysterious giant mounds on Mars that are believed to be ...