Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.

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Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.

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

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The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for ...

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.