Mars has long been cast as a world that lost its chance at life early, a frozen relic that dried out billions of years ago. A ...

It is a scientific consensus that water once flowed on Mars, and that it had a denser atmosphere, meaning that it was once ...

Near-surface water ice could supply essential resources for future human exploration on the Red Planet. Before sending people ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A chapter of the layered geological history of Mars is laid bare in this image from NASA's ...

Evidence indicates that Mars may have hosted life billions of years ago. Mars is now cold, dry, and without its protective magnetic field. Scientists study the planet as a scene that helps them find ...

Forget the dusty, rusty landscape you see today. Billions of years ago, Mars may have been soaking wet. Tropical storms might ...

On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ...

Mars' distinctive red color comes from the mineral ferrihydrite, which only forms in the presence of cool water, a new study claims. Ferrihydrite also forms at a lower temperature than other minerals ...

Earth is the only currently habitable planet in our solar system, but that's never stopped scientists from proposing ways to make Mars a little more human-friendly. In a 1971 paper, astronomer Carl ...

In the coming years, NASA aims to put astronauts on the lunar surface for the first time since 1972 in preparation for potential future human missions to Mars. The idea of transforming Mars into a ...

Was the planet Mars ever habitable and what conditions led to it becoming the uninhabitable world we see today? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

A planet's habitability is determined by a confluence of many factors. So far, our explorations of potentially habitable ...