Curiosity rover cracked open a Martian rock, revealing a sight never before seen on Mars - a dazzling display of yellow ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

The idea of an ancient Martian ocean has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, groundbreaking research based on radar scans ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface of the Red Planet—and found evidence that Mars may have once been warm, wet ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images ... The star indicates the Zhurong rover's location. Credit: Robert Citron illustration Manga, who has long-believed in the ocean hypothesis ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past ... which included China's first Mars rover, Zhurong. Images taken by the Viking spacecraft in the 1970s first led to speculation ...

This isn’t any conspiracy theory or pseudoscience: Using samples collected from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover ... determined was the prime location for sample collection.

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

Rocks loafing about on the surface of Mars have been harboring secrets about the red planet's mysterious past.

After reaching Mars in 2021 the Zhurong rover landed in the Utopia Planitia ... as well as looking at the shoreline from more distant locations. Graziella Caprarelli, a planetary scientist at ...