In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the once-controversial question of whether water ever rippled over the red planet. Since ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie ...

The Red Planet once had "habitable environments, capable of harboring conditions friendly" toward life, researchers believe.

Ground-penetrating radar data obtained by China's Zhurong rover has revealed buried beneath the Martian surface evidence of ...

Mars wasn't always the dusty red desert we know today. Billions of years ago, waves may have crashed against sandy beaches ...

Scientists have used orbiters and rovers to find dried streams, lakes, and gullies on Mars that hint at its watery past, but ...

A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once ...

Mars wasn’t always a dry, desolate world—it may have had sunlit beaches and rolling ocean waves, just like Earth. A new study ...

For now, the discovery of ancient beaches on Mars offers a glimpse into a time when the Red Planet may have been a blue one, ...

Data from China's Zhurong rover on Mars suggests an ancient ocean and strengthens evidence that the planet was once warm, wet ...

"We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand—a proper, vacation-style beach," said geologist Benjamin Cardenas.

Humans have been living continuously in space for nearly 25 years, with astronauts and cosmonauts living aboard the ...