"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

But there is good news coming from the small Mars rover Curiosity. A new study using imagery from the rover shows evidence ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Life on Mars is a dream long held – and not just for David Bowie. The idea of settling on the Red Planet has been around for ...

Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.

Scientists confirm the existence of liquid water on Mars, altering our understanding of the Red Planet. Evidence of wave ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

The planet is the seventh largest and is currently inhabited solely by robots. However, the space agency is working hard to ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for ...