Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, located in the Arsia Mons region — one of Mars’ giant volcanoes — could ...

New climate modeling suggests that small lakes on ancient Mars could have stayed liquid for decades, even in a generally cold environment. Small lakes on early Mars may have stayed in liquid form for ...

Linear gullies scratch the surface of sand dunes at Hellas Planitia on Mars. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / UArizona Strange, narrow channels threading through some of Mars' sand dunes have intrigued ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

This experiment shows how starkly different conditions on Mars are.

A Martian mystery that sparked years of debate — an alleged lake buried beneath miles of ice — now looks far less watery than scientists hoped. A new radar study from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance ...

Mini-lightning strikes created by whirling dust devils on Mars have been detected accidentally by the microphone on board the Perseverance rover. The chance discovery is direct evidence of a form of ...

Strange, narrow channels threading through some of Mars' sand dunes have intrigued scientists for years. These Martian features don't look like anything on Earth. Early theories proposed that flowing ...

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A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected for decades but... At long last, the mystery of lightning on Mars is ...