NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English ...

The surface of Mars looks like an empty red wasteland. But if you look a bit closer, the remnants of an ancient alien civilization begin to take shape. At least, that's the conclusion of George J.

Using images from cameras on Mars orbiters, an international research team has discovered structures on Mars that are very similar to classic river deltas on Earth. These are traces of rivers that ...

Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings over the past half-century have made this seemingly far-fetched idea increasingly plausible.

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Mars has a clear structure in its mantel, and its crust includes distinct reservoirs, scientists have said. Those are the findings from meteorites that originated 1.3 billion years ago on the red ...

The red planet was half blue, according to space scientists. A research team using images from cameras on Mars-orbiting spacecraft say it was a "blue planet" around three billion years ago – with an ...

If humans are ever to land on Mars, they will need somewhere to stay—a protective shell that can shield them from the sun’s harsh rays. One possible answer: great, glassy domes of ice. Mars is rich in ...