A recent discovery suggests Mars may have once had a much larger moon, which could have caused tides in a lake that once ...

NASA’s rover Perseverance spent nearly a year exploring the rim of a crater believed to have held a huge lake.

Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking missions to Mars made groundbreaking attempts to detect life on the Red Planet. While the missions initially returned negative results, a new study published in the ...

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold and icy. The result has implications for the idea that ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue and is one of ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

Networks of narrow channels lining the surface of Martian dunes, called “gullies,” have puzzled astronomers for decades. Now, as detailed in a new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research ...

One might not imagine such a time being conducive to the existence of fragile lifeforms, yet it is likely to be the era in which Mars was most habitable ...

Two recent discoveries from Mars - one from the surface and one in the atmosphere - are the latest evidence that the Red Planet could have once supported life, according to NASA. The space agency ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...