It is understood that oceans disappeared from the surface of Mars more than three billion years ago. The newly-discovered ...

Harvard scientists studying the mystery of water and life on ancient Mars believe they may have finally found a solution.

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

China's Zhurong rover has found what might be the shoreline of an ancient Martian ocean, offering fresh support for theories that Mars once had vast bodies of water. Studying images and radar data ...

This discovery provides further evidence that Mars once had large bodies of water, which means the planet ... or possibly oceans. Accumulating evidence increases the idea that Mars must have ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

New Paper Examines the Elusive Nature of Liquid Brines on Mars Dec. 16, 2024 — The combination of low temperature, atmospheric pressure and water vapor pressure on Mars means any liquid water ...

Scientists think that billions of years ago, the atmosphere of Mars was much denser and warm enough to form rivers, lakes, and perhaps even oceans of water. As the planet cooled and lost its ...

Related: Ocean's worth of water may be buried within Mars — but can we get to it? On Earth — for example, in the western United States — we find such hills in the form of buttes and mesas in ...

NASA's Rover found ripples in Martian rock that resemble the wave patterns on a sandy lake bed on Earth. The ripples could only have come from liquid water.

China's Zhurong rover has found what might be the shoreline of an ancient Martian ocean, offering fresh support for theories that Mars once had vast bodies of water. Studying images and radar data ...