A warm afternoon on ancient Mars lasted about as long as a Silicon Valley internship. That is the sobering conclusion of a ...

"Past climates with surface and shallow-subsurface liquid water are recorded by Mars's sedimentary rocks, including strata in the approximately 4-kilometer-thick [circa 2.5 miles thick] record at Gale ...

New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...

Curiosity stitched 291 Mastcam photos into a color-balanced 360° panorama of Gale Crater’s “boxwork” ridges—spiderweb-like ...

By discovering carbonate rocks, NASA's Mars rovers may have unlocked the key to understanding the fate of the Red Planet's ...

Mars, often imagined as a lifeless desert battered by radiation and cold, holds within its crust the haunting memory of a ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for answers.

NASA's Curiosity rover finds strange rock formations on Mars. These look like spiderwebs. The rover spots these on Mount Sharp. Scientists think these ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

Kaushik Mitra, an assistant professor in the UTSA Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has conducted a laboratory-based experimental study to investigate the formation of ferric iron-bearing ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered carbonate-rich rocks on Mars, offering insights into the planet's past and possibly explaining why life has never been found there.