Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open ...

Mars is no longer just a blank red canvas for planetary scientists. A new generation of high resolution maps is turning the ...

Liquid water once shaped the Martian landscape dramatically, carving valleys, filling lakes, and forming vast oceans. Billions of years ago, during Mars' early days known as the Noachian and Hesperian ...

Seismic readings of the interior of Mars strongly suggest large quantities of water buried 6 to 12 miles underground. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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 ...

There might be a hidden ocean's worth of liquid water below the surface of Mars, seismic evidence suggests. According to a new paper published April 25 in the journal National Science Review, ...

Scientists leveraged what was previously considered "digital noise"—color offsets caused by moving objects in images from ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter—to catalog 1,039 martian dust ...

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