The surface of Mars is extremely cold, irradiated, and desiccated. But at one time, the planet was much warmer and wetter, ...

"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." ...

Mars, today a cold, irradiated, and dry world, once had a much warmer and wetter environment. The planet was covered by lakes ...

New research suggests ancient Mars may have been warm and wet, with rainfall or snowmelt carving its iconic valleys.

I'm out here on Lake St. Clair jigging for yellow perch. I'm just outside of Mitchel's Bay on St. Lukes. This is a new body ...

A new study from geologists at the University of Colorado Boulder paints this picture of a Red Planet that was relatively ...

“We’ve explored the MFF again using newer data from Mars Express’s MARSIS radar, and found the deposits to be even thicker than we thought: up to 2.2 miles (3.7 km) thick,” says Watters. “Excitingly, ...

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

Sprawling ice caps may have covered ... NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021, is currently exploring Jezero Crater, the site of one such ancient lake. During the Noachian ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field.

A new analysis by UC Boulder geologists suggests the ancient Mars landscape was formed by falling precipitation, including ...