NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered a coral-shaped rock inside Mars’ Gale Crater, pointing to a time when the planet had water. The delic...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered siderite, a carbonate mineral, in Mars’ Gale Crater, offering strong evidence that the Red Planet onc...

On Earth, a strongly carbon 13 depleted signature from a paleo surface would indicate past microbes consumed microbially produced methane. ...

Based on the analysis, scientists including those from Cornell University in the US, said these floods of "unimaginable magnitude" set up g...

New York, April 23 (IANS) The discovery of cracks on the surface of Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover in early 2017 are evidence of lakes that...

Washington, June 12 (IANS) Examining initial samples of rocks collected by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover, scientists have found a wide divers...

"These were very different, co-existing environments in the same lake," said Joel Hurowitz of Stony Brook University in the US.

New York, June 2 (IANS) An ancient Martian lake had conditions suitable for different types of microbes to survive, according to a new rese...

Washington, May 31 (IANS) Ancient Mars had flowing water much longer than previously believed, suggests pale zones called "halos" with high...

The game also illustrates how NASA's next Mars rover will use radar to search for underground water.

NASA's Curiosity has been exploring sedimentary rocks within Gale Crater since landing in August 2012.

Mars harboured long-lasting lakes and water streams about 3.8 to 3.3 billion years ago, boosting the odds that life may have once existed o...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has made the first definitive detection of organic molecules, the building blocks of all known forms of terrest...

The American space agency said Mars's Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years.

Much of Curiosity's first year on Mars was spent investigating outcrops in a low area of Gale Crater called "Yellowknife Bay".

After more than two years of touching down on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover has finally reached the foothills of Mount Sharp, the primary de...