In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

Evidence is mounting that the same basic chemistry that made Earth habitable is unfolding, or once unfolded, on Mars. From ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

Skylights, openings in the surface of Mars that descend down into caves, have been found on Mars, along with signatures for the presence of water ice. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

They’re not completely sure. They never are. But this time, they’re pretty sure. Or, at the very least, sure enough to alert the media. Scientists monitoring the Perseverance Mars rover mission have ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

Long before Mars became the cold, dry world we see today, rain once fell across its surface. Water gathered in low-lying valleys and river channels ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less than a meter beneath the surface, close enough to be harvested for water, ...

On record 2025 as one of the most amazing years in contemporary astronomy, providing findings that would turn our collective ...