NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered carbonate-rich rocks on Mars, offering insights into the planet's past and possibly explaining why life has never been found there.

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A discovery ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

ASTRONAUTS visiting Mars could unearth a museum of alien fossils that may have belonged to an intelligent civilisation.

In an unexpected turn of events, NASA’s Curiosity rover has cracked open a rock on Mars, uncovering something so surprising ...

Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover, accidentally cracked open a seemingly ordinary rock, revealing an unexpected yellow substance ...

"Past climates with surface and shallow-subsurface liquid water are recorded by Mars's sedimentary rocks, including strata in the approximately 4-kilometer-thick [circa 2.5 miles thick] record at Gale ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

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When Curiosity rolled its 1,982-pound body over a rock in May last year, the deposit broke open to reveal yellow crystals ...

What can the climate history of Mars teach scientists about whether the Red Planet once had the ingredients for life as we ...

Martian dust devils may spark with electricity, potentially zapping rovers. New models show that charged dust could interfere ...