A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

Mars has long been a planet of mystery, especially when it comes to the question of water. For years, scientists have debated ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over the sinuous grooves found etched across the sand dunes of Mars. These features, stretching across the planet’s mid-latitudes, resemble erosion caused by flowing ...

In the new research, Goudz and his team combined decades of data from Mars orbiters with ancient maps of valleys, lake beds, ...

The surface of Mars is alive with change. More than five years of observations by the University of Arizona's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) have revealed a planet with shifting ...

Ancient Mars boasted abundant water, but the cold and dry conditions of today make liquid water on the Red Planet seem far less probable. However, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere ...

We were as excited as anyone when MARSIS (the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) experiment announced there was possibly liquid water under the southern polar ice cap. If ...

For centuries – maybe millennia – humans have wondered how Mars gets its red hue, but a recent study has some answers.

The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 ...