The melting of the ice caused the soil and rocks to flow like fluidised material. This is why the debris around the crater ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater ...

Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through ...

Bizarre 'bleached' rocks on the surface of Mars suggest that the Red Planet was once a tropical oasis, a new study reveals.

Mars may have had its own version of an Ice Age that reshaped parts of the Red Planet and carved deep "scratches" in its surface that remain visible today. New high-resolution images from the European ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.

A study led by NYU Abu Dhabi’s Space Exploration Laboratory found underground water that turned sand dunes into solid rock, ...

Since humanity's first steps on the moon, the aspiration to extend human civilization beyond Earth has been a central ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

Meteorite hunting is a side quest for Perseverance, whose primary job is to search for signs of ancient life in Jezero and collect rock cores for a possible sample return.