Mars, often imagined as a lifeless desert battered by radiation and cold, holds within its crust the haunting memory of a ...

An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

Curiosity stitched 291 Mastcam photos into a color-balanced 360° panorama of Gale Crater’s “boxwork” ridges—spiderweb-like ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...

A warm afternoon on ancient Mars lasted about as long as a Silicon Valley internship. That is the sobering conclusion of a ...

ASTRONAUTS visiting Mars could unearth a museum of alien fossils that may have belonged to an intelligent civilisation.

Earth is probably stabilizing to life-friendly conditions, but Mars is different. This is indicated by simulations and ...

UChicago-led analysis of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why planet was likely harsh desert for most ...