Ground-penetrating radar reveals a long-lost river system hidden under the surface of Mars. (NASA/JPL/UCLA/UiO/ETH Zurich) ...
NASA names 2026 RASC AL finalists as university teams present concepts for lunar power, Mars navigation, and sample return systems tied to future exploration missions.
Using ground-penetrating radar, NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered subsurface traces of an ancient river delta on Mars.
Water is considered the basic building block for life as we know it. An extended water history on Mars widens the window of opportunity for life to have once emerged there.
The latest evidence that Mars was once a warmer, wetter world comes from a surprising place—the hidden subsurface depths of ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered a hidden ancient river delta beneath Jezero Crater, revealing layered sediments and eroded surfaces. This groundbreaking discovery, dating back 3.7 to 4.2 ...
New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago ...
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has located a fresh crater on Mars after 20 years of monitoring, providing high-resolution images and updated data on surface features and seasonal streaks.
An accident on Mars revealed the surprising contents of an otherwise unremarkable rock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A rock on ...
NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will uncover how the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere. Mars is a very different world today than it once was. Scientists believe the planet used to have a thicker ...
A routine drive by NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally cracked open a Martian rock, revealing rare yellow sulfur crystals. The strange discovery has scientists questioning how such an unexpected ...
Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...