NASA’s Curiosity rover has assembled a string of chemical evidence from ancient Martian rocks that, taken together, builds ...

Last year, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a fascinating discovery after boring into a suspected ancient lake bed on Mars: ...

Famous Martian Meteorite Found Packed With Traces of 'Ancient Water' ...

In 2025, scientists reported the discovery of long-chain organic molecules called alkanes in the ancient mudstones of Mars. Now, in a new study, a team led by Alexander Pavlov of NASA's Goddard Space ...

This isn’t the famous sample reported last September, but another with different signs of past life we’re struggling to ...

Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a newly adapted climate model, researchers showed that thin, seasonal ice ...

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

Chinese officials said their Mars rover may have found an ancient beach on the Red Planet. The Zhurong Rover made the discovery in 2021 while exploring Mars’ utopia basin, a region dating back four ...

Bright white rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance rover hint at ancient Martian rain lasting millions of years, raising new questions about how wet Mars once was and what those conditions might mean.

How much water did Mars have in its ancient past and when did it disappear? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as an international team of ...

Scientists have discovered the perfect vacation spot: it's sun-soaked, has sandy beaches, sports gentle waves lapping rhythmically on the shore. But hold off on grabbing the sun lotion, because ...

Mars had a vast ocean with ancient beaches, suggests data from China's Zhurong rover. (artist's Impression of a rover on the surface of Mars). Mars was once home to a vast ocean, complete with sandy ...