"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 ...

In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the once-controversial question of whether water ever rippled over the red planet.

New research from China's Mars rover has found evidence of an ancient beach on the planet.In 2021, The Zhurong rover landed ...

The rover landed in Utopia Planitia, a plain within the largest known impact basin on Mars, near a series of ridges in the ...

Lake Salda is more than a beautiful hidden gem, scientists believe this extraordinary body of water shares qualities with ...

Research published late last year indicated “seismic discontinuities in the Martian crust” that scientists believe could be an indicator of liquid water under the Martian surface, raising the ...

Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

Ever since NASA launched the Mariner 9 orbiter back in 1971, the spacecraft mapped 85 percent of Mars' surface and indicated ...

Mars, even to the casual observer, bears a striking resemblance to Death Valley in satellite imagery, featuring sand dunes, salt flats, and playas. Like Death Valley, the Martian surface is actively ...