A new image captured by the Mars Express orbiter offers a striking view of one of the most heavily cratered regions on Mars. The image shows part of Arabia Terra, a vast plain located in the planet’s ...

Instruments like the those currently on the Red Planet were used to study samples collected from an 'Mars-like' area in Chile ...

NASA finds carbon molecules in ancient Martian lake, and scientists admit it is difficult to explain them without life.

High-resolution flyover footage is revealing Mars as a world shaped by dramatic landscapes and ancient forces. From vast canyons to layered terrain carved by time, orbital cameras are capturing ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ones for the first time. Researchers mapped 16 massive drainage basins ...

Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through highlands, lakes pooled inside craters, and floods tore open canyon walls.

New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Scientists suspect that the surface of Mars was once teeming with water, a lush oasis full of river systems and lakes — until a dramatic change in the planet’s magnetic field caused it to lose most of ...

More evidence that Mars was once a habitable, wet oasis not dissimilar to Earth has been found in the rocks scattered throughout the red planet. A team of researchers who analyzed the thousands of ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover investigates boxwork rock formations on Mount Sharp to gather evidence of ancient groundwater on Mars.