The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

Ancient Mars is coming into sharper focus as a planet laced with rivers, deltas and vast drainage basins, and that new map of ...

New research reveals that ancient Mars once hosted vast river drainage systems comparable in scale to some of Earth’s major ...

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

Mars is a barren land, but many scientists believe it had warm and wet periods in its ancient past. The research, performed by geologists at the University of Colorado in Boulder, argues that our ...

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

An unusual new rock collection discovered by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover suggests the Red Planet's ancient past was wet ...

What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

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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 ...