A northern summer dust storm on Mars boosted high-altitude water escape, suggesting short-lived events may play a bigger role ...

The current image of Mars as an arid and hostile desert contrasts sharply with the history revealed by its surface. Channels, ...

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NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The discovery was made in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks inside Gale Crater. These molecules show that ancient Mars ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

The Chinese-led research team based its findings on seismic readings from NASA's InSight lander on Mars, which recorded more than 1,300 marsquakes before shutting down in 2022. The spacecraft landed ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go beneath the surface,... The core of Mars looks like Earth’s. What makes the ...

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