NASA’s Opportunity rover far exceeded its original mission, operating on Mars for nearly 15 years instead of 90 days. During ...

NASA announced today that Mars, which scientists once thought of as a dry, dusty planet, is home to liquid water. That makes Mars an even better candidate for supporting alien—or, one day, human—life.

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

A team of Chinese researchers has identified eight caves in Mars’ Hebrus Valles that may have been sculpted by water. These ...

Although there are many who dream about one day living on Mars, there’s been one challenge to plans for eventually settling on the Red Planet: access to water, which would be vital for any kind of ...

How long did Mars have habitable conditions for life? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets hopes to address as a team of scientists from New York ...

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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 ...

Over four years since it landed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover might have made serious headway in its mission to find signs of ancient microbial life on the planet. Last July, the autonomous ...

The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 ...