The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war ... scientists have revealed Mars as a dynamic, windblown landscape that could—just maybe—harbor microbial life beneath its rusty surface ...

This type of sedimentary geology can tell us what the landscape looked like ... New Study Shows That The Red Planet Was Once Home To Ancient Beaches. first on TwistedSifter.

NASA scientists were recently “astonished” by the Perseverance rover's discovery of dark gray spheres on Mars, whose origin ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on ...

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is likely what gives the planet its reddish hue.

Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many ... dust and carried across the planet by powerful winds, a ...

A new study may have revealed the true source behind how the Red Planet got its hue. It’s been long thought that Mars shines red due to the rusted iron minerals within the dust that covers the ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover reveals stunning new images of another world. Curiosity, a car-sized robotic rover featured in Destination: Mars, landed on the red planet in August 2012. As Curiosity makes ...

An international team of researchers based at Penn State University has examined data from the layers of soil that comprise the Red Planet’s ... can tell us what the landscape looked like ...

"Mars is still the Red Planet. It’s just that our understanding ... a process still shaping the Martian landscape today. However, not all iron oxides are the same, so experts have long debated ...