A striking Martian landscape filled with coral-like patterns is offering scientists a new window into the planet’s distant past, with observations from HiRISE revealing layered deposits that may ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...

NASA/Theophilus Britt Griswold. Contrary to Earth, present-day Mars has little to no volcanic or tectonic activity.

The microorganism is called sPL.001 and, according to this US company, it will transform nutrients from Martian soil, water, ...

Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to Earth. It is about the same size, contains similar rocks and minerals, and ...

It’s a virtual mission to Mars. Our first mission to Mars may still be a ways off, but people can take a virtual tour of the Red Planet thanks to a brand new video by the Mars Express Orbiter. People ...

Mars today is a cold, dry, dusty planet with its only obvious water locked up in frozen polar ice caps. But billions of years ago, it appears to have had sandy beaches lapped by waves along the ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Mars, the red planet, could be in for a global display of ...

Mars holds a special place in the solar system. It represents marginal habitability. This means it transitioned from warm and wet and potentially hospitable, to cold and dry and inhospitable. "Mars is ...