The first life on Earth formed four billion years ago, as microbes living in pools and seas: what if the same thing happened ...

A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once ...

Scientists have used orbiters and rovers to find dried streams, lakes, and gullies on Mars that hint at its watery past, but ...

Thanks to new research techniques published today, scientists say that "our understanding of why Mars is red has been ...

Martian dust is mostly rust. Mars’s famed color has captivated humankind for centuries, earning its nickname of the ‘Red ...

Mars’s signature red hue may not be due to hematite, as previously believed, but rather to ferrihydrite — an iron oxide that ...

This isn’t any conspiracy theory or pseudoscience: Using samples collected from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, Hausrath ...

China's Zhurong rover has uncovered evidence of ancient Martian beaches, suggesting a past ocean on Mars' northern plains.

"We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand—a proper, vacation-style beach," said geologist Benjamin Cardenas.

Data from Zhurong provide an unprecedented look into rocks buried near a proposed shoreline billions of years old. The ...

Former MLB All-star Alex Rodriguez makes a half-court shot at halftime of college game Bucknell vs Army. Expedition 70 NASA ...

The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point.