Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a ...

Scientists are constantly searching for any signs of life on Mars, and though there have been many discoveries over the years, one made on accident by the Curiosity rover within the past year just ...

During a recent solar storm, NASA's Curiosity rover detected its highest-ever level of radiation reaching the surface of Mars. Reading time 3 minutes A recent outburst from the Sun sent a strong blast ...

The observation of small gullies on Mars was one of the more unexpected discoveries of the Mars Observer Camera (MOC) aboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The characteristics of these gullies ...

Things are looking up for digging deep on Mars. Progress is palpable on how best to extract subsurface ice to generate drinkable water, rocket fuel and other useful resources on the Red Planet. But ...

If you’re a scientist studying the surface of Mars, few discoveries could be more exciting than seeing recent gullies apparently formed by running water. And that’s what scientists believed they saw ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.

In a recent announcement, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has set a new target for human colonization of Mars by 2030. However, despite the ambitious timeline, experts in the field have expressed ...