Mars is no longer just a story about a single lost ocean or one fleeting window for biology. Taken together, recent rover ...

W hile the northern hemisphere of Earth makes its way through winter, the southern hemisphere of Mars is reaching the end of ...

Scientists have developed a new robotic artificial intelligence (AI) “chemist” that could use materials found on Mars to make the Red Planet more habitable. Researchers demonstrated that they could ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A chapter of the layered geological history of Mars is laid bare in this image from NASA's ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images Mars may have hosted life billions of years ...

Mars, a planet once capable of sustaining liquid water and harboring flowing rivers, today stands as a frozen desert. For years, scientists have struggled to understand why a planet with so many Earth ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

The idea of transforming Mars into a world more hospitable to human habitation is a regular feature of science fiction. But could this be done in real life? Scientists are now proposing a new approach ...

A small group of scientists and engineers have proposed releasing metal nanorods into the atmosphere of Mars to make the planet more habitable for life. The researchers created models that point to ...

Mars' distinctive red color comes from the mineral ferrihydrite, which only forms in the presence of cool water, a new study claims. Ferrihydrite also forms at a lower temperature than other minerals ...

Was the planet Mars ever habitable and what conditions led to it becoming the uninhabitable world we see today? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

IMAGE: This conceptual image reveals what the Kasei Valles region on Mars may have looked like three billion years ago. White areas are glaciers and blue represents ocean. CREDIT: F. Schmidt/NASA/USGS ...