NASA’s rover Perseverance spent nearly a year exploring the rim of a crater believed to have held a huge lake.

“If life ever appeared on Mars billions of years ago… chemical traces of this ancient life could still be present today for us to detect,” analytical chemist Caroline Freissinet of the French National ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered chemical patterns on Mars that may indicate ancient microbial life.

"The structures that we were able to identify in the images are clearly the mouth of a river into an ocean." The post ...

Bright white rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance rover hint at ancient Martian rain lasting millions of years, raising new questions about how wet Mars once was and what those conditions might mean.

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.

Scientists have traced ancient Martian shorelines inside a giant canyon, revealing where a vast ocean once stood and why ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold.

Are researchers searching in the wrong locations on Mars to find ancient life? This is what a recent study published in Astrobiology hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated searching in ...

Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through highlands, lakes pooled inside craters, and floods tore open canyon walls.

“The presence of liquid water [on Mars] is a broad topic that includes rains, rivers, lakes, as well as oceans,” says Ezat ...