The Astera Institute and Pioneer Labs ran a workshop at AGU on the feasibility of terraforming Mars, investigating how warming the planet’s surface could enable human habitats in less than a ...

New research suggests ancient Mars may have been warm and wet, with rainfall or snowmelt carving its iconic valleys.

"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered a missing piece in the puzzle of Mars' past atmosphere. Scientists discovered ...

But researchers writing in the journal IMA Fungus say they reckon lichens could survive on Mars today, despite the planet's barren surface. Lichens are a strange "symbiotic" relationship between ...

The rover's findings offer insight into the carbon cycle on ancient Mars. (File ... bodies of liquid water on its surface. There are features on the Martian landscape that many scientists have ...

Despite its current dry and cold state, evidence suggests ancient Mars had significant amounts of liquid water in the form of lakes, rivers, rain, and snow.

In his paper, "Energy problems of terraforming Mars," Dr. Czechowski suggests smashing the planet with asteroids from the Kuiper Belt or the dense, but currently theoretical, Oort Cloud.

WASHINGTON — A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing ... are features on the Martian landscape that many scientists have ...

Such discoveries suggest water once flowed beneath Mars' surface. On Earth, sulfate minerals can preserve microscopic fossils of microbes. Finding similar structures on Mars could indicate past life.