Step aside, Santa Monica. It seems that Mars once had beaches that would give the Californian coast a run for its money. An international team of researchers has revealed evidence of bygone ...

The first thing most people think of when they consider Mars is its deep red color. The Romans associated the planet with their god of war because it reminded them of blood while the ...

The study suggests that the planet’s signature hue is due to ferrihydrite, an iron oxide containing water, which formed when Mars was a cool and wet world. Study Contradicts Previous Assumptions ...

There aren’t any creepy crawlies on Mars, but fresh images from an orbiting probe show a swarm of ‘spiders’ seemingly scurrying across the planet’s dusty terrain. Of course, these aren’t real ...

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The Mars Volta surprised concertgoers with a setlist of new material while opening for Deftones in Portland on Tuesday night (February 25th). It would appear that the songs are from the experimental ...

The three-kilometre-thick ice sheet covering Mars's north pole is young, formed between 2 and 12 million years ago. The ice sheet is bending the rocky crust beneath at a rate of 0.13 millimetres per ...

The beginning of Deftones‘ highly anticipated headlining tour at Portland, OR’s Moda Center last night (2/25) also meant The Mars Volta played their first show of the year as opener.

If this laser technology can be integrated into future Mars rovers, it could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life. A mass spectrometer determines the chemical composition of a ...

The first life on Earth formed four billion years ago, as microbes living in pools and seas: what if the same thing happened on Mars? If it did, how would we prove it? Scientists hoping to identify ...

Gypsum deposits formed on Mars could conceal evidence of past life on the planet — microbes similar to the first life that formed on Earth four billion years ago. But to test this hypothesis, we need ...