The conditions at Salar de Pajonales, the high-altitude salt flat in northern Chile, are harsh and mimic those that early ...

Scientists have broadly agreed for years that the thousands of small cone-shaped mounds peppering Mars’ northern lowlands are ...

NASA’s latest Mars findings have pushed the search for ancient life from speculation into a disciplined, data-rich debate about what once happened in the planet’s vanished lakes and rivers. The ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has photographed extraordinary spiderweb-like formations on Mars that scientists believe could hold the key to ancient life on Mars ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ones for the first time. Researchers mapped 16 massive drainage basins ...

What can sand ripples on Mars teach scientists about weather patterns on ancient Mars? This is what a recent study published in Geology hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how ...

Skylights, openings in the surface of Mars that descend down into caves, have been found on Mars, along with signatures for the presence of water ice. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

For more than a century, astronomers debated the possibility of martian canali (channels) which Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed to see on the Red Planet in 1877. Mistranslated into ...

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You're an anaerobic microbe sunbathing on a Martian beach billions of years ago listening to the small waves hit the shoreline as you take in the perchlorates in the Martian regolith. This is because ...