The area containing the clay-bearing mounds is geologically connected to Oxia Planum, which is where Rosalind Franklin will ...

Discoveries of clay minerals in Martian mounds by researchers indicate that Mars once had large bodies of water billions of ...

The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.

Researchers discover thousands of clay-rich hills on Mars, revealing evidence of ancient water and transforming our ...

The new work suggests that the edge of the dichotomy was eroded back by hundreds of kilometers during the time when an ocean ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.

So the southern highlands appear to be older than the northern lowlands. Scientists also believe there was once a vast ocean ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made light of Starship's fiery end. "Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!" he said on ...

Japan's SLIM mission exceeded expectations, while NASA’s Perseverance found evidence of ancient life on Mars. The Europa Clipper launched to investigate subsurface oceans on Jupiter's moon ...

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 ...

Indeed, the evidence is now overwhelming that Mars was once warmer, and wet, with rivers, lakes and possibly even oceans that existed almost four billion years ago. Now researchers led by McNeil have ...