Scientists believe that future human settlements on Mars may rely on metals extracted from asteroids for construction.

For decades, scientists believed that long, dark streaks on the surface of Mars were a sign of something crucial: running water. These streaks, first spotted by NASA’s Viking mission in 1976, sparked ...

For years, scientists have been intrigued by mysterious dark streaks running down the slopes of Martian cliffs and craters. These marks, called slope streaks and recurring slope lineae (RSLs), have ...

Liquid water once shaped the Martian landscape dramatically, carving valleys, filling lakes, and forming vast oceans. Billions of years ago, during Mars' early days known as the Noachian and Hesperian ...

NASA’s Mars rovers have found traces of minerals akin to those that make up precious gems on Earth. But their appearance and ...

There might be a hidden ocean's worth of liquid water below the surface of Mars, seismic evidence suggests. According to a new paper published April 25 in the journal National Science Review, ...

Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...