Satellite images of the Red Planet suggest scientists were wrong about these strange Martian features.

Planetary scientists concluded that dark streaks spotted on the surface of Mars didn't have anything to do with flowing water.

For decades, scientists believed that Mars’s famous red hue came mainly from hematite, a dry iron oxide mineral. However, a recent study challenges this long-held view and points to a different ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has observed atmospheric sputtering on Mars for the first time, confirming how solar wind stripped the Red Planet’s thick atmosphere and transformed its climate.

Mars isn’t as arid as it may seem. Billions of years ago, the surface of the Red Planet rippled with oceans and rivers of liquid water, but now it seems that all of that fluid has disappeared ...

The Perseverance rover on Mars just took an amazing selfie - but some of its most exciting work is just beginning.

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was fainter early on." New research suggests that temperatures on ancient Mars ...

Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ancient past. The discovery could further indicate that the Red Planet, despite its arid ...

If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way. Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped ...

life-friendly world to a dry and arid desert. The Curiosity rover recently uncovered large deposits of carbon within sulfate-rich layers of Mount Sharp in Mars’ impact basin, Gale Crater.

Given that modern Mars is dry and arid, with temperatures rarely climbing above the freezing point of water, the origin of these streaks has long been a topic of heated debate. For years ...