Mars, often seen as a barren and lifeless world, was not always the desolate planet we know today. New research has uncovered ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

If you suddenly found yourself standing on the surface of Mars, it would feel like you’d been transported into a dusty space western. The arid soil lays a rocky palette of red powder across the ...

It’s hard to form rocks like these without a lot of water,” said Dr. Briony Horgan, a planetary scientist and member of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona Debris from ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars could ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Some of the Martian buttes and mesas on the Red Planet's northern plains. Inside these eroded ...

Mars started out relatively wet and temperate, underwent a major climate shift, and evolved into a cold, dry place strewn with acidic rock – less than ideal conditions for supporting life. This is the ...

Exotically pitted “Swiss-cheese” terrain made of carbon dioxide (dry ice) overlies the topmost layer of water ice in Mars’ South Polar Massive Carbon Dioxide Ice Deposit. Image is about 1 kilometer ...

Frigid water helped paint Mars red and may have shaped a vast coastline, two new studies into the planet’s history reveal. Scientists have detected a possible ancient beach in Mars’ northern ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the exploration of Mars. The United States, Soviet Union and China are the only three countries to land a spacecraft on Mars. There have been nine successful US Mars landings: ...

"It's possible that this might have come from an ancient northern ocean on Mars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thousands of ...