These layers are hundreds of feet thick and are thought to have formed roughly 3.7 billion years ago, under warmer and wetter ...

The study suggests that Mars has been self-regulating as a desert planet, with habitability being the exception, rather than ...

As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked ...

"Past climates with surface and shallow-subsurface liquid water are recorded by Mars's sedimentary rocks, including strata in the approximately 4-kilometer-thick [circa 2.5 miles thick] record at Gale ...

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for ...

The experiments show a real chance of creating self-sufficient, closed-loop living spaces using shelters made from ...

Nearly a decade’s worth of data went into the first direct observation of sputtering on Mars, which researchers believe ...

Mars, also known as the Red Planet, is home to some of the most dramatic weather systems in the solar system. The dust raised ...

A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...