Data from China's Zhurong rover on Mars suggests an ancient ocean and strengthens evidence that the planet was once warm, wet, and habitable.

Perseverance is pushing the limits of Martian science by using its SHERLOC instrument to detect organic compounds, but harsh ...

NASA has officially reinvented the Mars rover, making it smarter, faster, and more advanced than ever before. With AI-powered navigation, upgraded mobility, and next-gen scientific instruments, this ...

The fundamental question of why Mars is red has been considered for hundreds if not for thousands of years,” Adam Valantinas, ...

Mars expert Roger Wiens and his team, including the rover Perseverance, discovered fascinating rocks incorporating kaolinite ...

Scientists have discovered that Mars once had beaches. While the past presence of water on the Red Planet is no longer in ...

Now, scientists are preparing for the next step: cataloguing these ... lab equipment that can't make the journey to Mars. "The Perseverance rover is able to sample loose material less than 8 ...

Within the next decade, space agencies plan to bring samples of rock from Mars to Earth for study. Of concern is the possibility these samples contain life, which could have unforeseen consequences.

Mars wasn't always the dusty red desert we know today. Billions of years ago, waves may have crashed against sandy beaches ...

Mars may have once been a paradise with Earth-like oceans and balmy beaches that would have been ideal for harboring living ...

A new study, based on data from China’s Zhurong rover, gives the ‘clearest evidence yet’ that billions of years ago, Mars had vast oceans, with buried coastlines beneath its now barren and ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...