Mars' strange gullies are not carved by water as once thought. New research shows sand and seasonal carbon dioxide ice are the main sculpto...

NASA's Perseverance rover has accidentally detected lightning-like electrical discharges on Mars, a breakthrough in understanding the plane...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured the first-ever close-up images of spiderweb-like “boxwork” formations on Mars, revealing new clues abou...

New findings provide evidence that Mars may have had a vast ocean around 3.5 to 4 billion years ago. During this period, the planet had a t...

Life on Mars: An astrobiologist suggests that NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s may have inadvertently eliminated potential Martian life....

The area containing the Jezero crater is just north of the Martian equator, and it appears the area once was abundant with water and home t...

Goutam Chattopadhyay, Senior Research Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, US, said the Jezero crater was chosen a...

Washington, June 8 (IANS) NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered "tough" organic molecules in three-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks near ...

Washington, June 8 (IANS) NASA announced on Thursday that its robot explorer Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012 and has been exploring...

Washington, March 31 (IANS) Solar wind and radiation were responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet...

New York, Dec 14 (IANS) NASA's Curiosity rover has detected boron for the first time on the surface of Mars, indicating the potential for l...

To reduce risk and provide cost savings, the 2020 rover will look much like its six-wheeled, one-tonne predecessor, Curiosity.

The dematerialisation of the little green men meme may disappoint some, but this discovery of water will fortuitously open up a whole new a...

The nitrogen was detected in the form of nitric oxide, and could be released from breakdown of nitrates during heating.

Mars' atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide but contains some ozone, said Shaheen, who investigated the process of oxygen isotope exchange.

This discovery helps resolve the question of where the "missing Martian water" may have gone.

The finding of a 'cell-like' structure, which investigators now know once held water, came about as a result of collaboration between scien...