A team of Chinese and foreign scientists has discovered underground sedimentary layers on Mars that appear to have been ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie ...

Scientists may finally have a way to detect ancient life on Mars by studying microbial fossils preserved in sulfate minerals.

Mars may have once had a vast, ice-free ocean, according to new evidence from China’s Zhurong rover. Using ground-penetrating ...

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is ...

A new study in the journal Nature Communications reveals that Mars is red for very much the same reason it may have once been ...

Mars’s red dust may contain ferrihydrite, an iron mineral that forms in water. This suggests ancient Mars had water for ...

Seen as showing promising potential in future Mars science work, the UAV can take off at any time, traverse obstacles, and ...

The question of whether life once existed on Mars may be answered by a new laser instrument from the University of Bern. The ...

If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

Scientists have tested a laser-powered mass spectrometer on Earth to detect fossilized microbes in minerals similar to those ...

China's Zhurong Mars rover, which has been exploring the planet's arid surface since May 2021, has made a fascinating ...