An international research team believes that the release of hydrogen chloride comes from hot magma beneath the surface. The ...

Past research has indicated Mars's largest northern basin, Utopia Planitia, was once the location of a large body of water, but details surrounding when this body of water may have existed have not ...

Discovered in Mali's Sahara Desert, the meteorite may be the oldest Martian rock found on Earth; its composition suggests ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered an astonishing discovery on Mars, vast, spiderweb-like formations that suggest the Red Planet may have harbored liquid water far longer than scientists once ...

Before they take the long journey to another planet, humans will have to find the right place to land. New findings from a University of Mississippi researcher may point to just such a place on Mars.

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ones for the first time. Researchers mapped 16 massive drainage basins ...

A thin atmosphere and other factors have left Mars' soil in rough shape, but the quest continues for signs of life, even if it's extinct. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS What if we aren’t alone in the universe?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You've probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your TV ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There might be a hidden ocean's worth of liquid water below the surface of Mars, seismic evidence suggests. According to a new ...

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Scientists have been arguing about the origin of strange streaks on Mars since the earliest missions to the Red Planet. Reading time 3 minutes In 1976, NASA’s Viking mission successfully landed the ...