For years, scientists have debated whether Mars could host liquid water beneath its icy surface. Recent radar findings, ...

A strange rock standing alone in the dusty expanse of Jezero Crater on Mars has captured the attention of planetary ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

Near-surface water ice could supply essential resources for future human exploration on the Red Planet. Before sending people ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this image from the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera ...

Not all the water on Mars was frozen in polar icecaps billions of years ago. Photographs taken from NASA's Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal that there is liquid water, even today, on the surface of… ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...

Scientists used data from NASA's Perseverance rover to find tiny lightning bolts on Mars that could scour biosignatures off ...

Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold ...