A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

From its perch in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high mountain, you can see over an expanse of plains, called Aeolis Palus, ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Finding evidence of life on Mars has been a goal for astronomers for several years now ...

A study using radar data from China's now-dead Zhurong rover finds strong evidence that Mars had a stable ocean in the ancient past. Credit: Victor Habbick Visions / Science Photo Library / Getty ...

The latest evidence suggests that Mars used to be a wet world covered in oceans, with astronomers uncovering not just icy remnants of this period, but signs of entire reservoirs of liquid water ...

An arrowhead-shaped rock on Mars sporting features that may hint at ancient microbial activity on the Red Planet has left ...

Scientists appear to have unravelled the mystery of Mars' "Martian dichotomy" - a contrast between its southern highlands and northern lowlands that's puzzled experts for over half a century.

There are, to be fair, a lot of things we don't know about the geological history of Mars, but the discovery of scads of pure sulfur just hanging about on the Martian surface suggests that there's ...

For the first time, a Mars rover has measured the ... “Mount Sharp is a big puzzle,” Lewis says. One idea is that the mountain could have been laid down layer by layer in the ancient lake ...

Called the Medusae Fossae Formation, the huge and unusual deposit of soft rock lies near Mars' equator, and consists of hills and abrupt mesas. It's about one-fifth of the size of the continental ...

A study using radar data from China's now-dead Zhurong rover finds strong evidence that Mars had a stable ocean in the ancient past.