Mars has always captured human imagination with its striking red hues and mysterious landscapes. Recent images from NASA’s Mars Orbiter unveiled a peculiar geological feature that has intrigued ...

On the Red Planet’s northern hemisphere, there are frozen sand dunes that look just like kidney beans-but you definitely can’t […] ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

Mars may once have held enough water to fill oceans and form coastlines. The planet’s red dust contains water and likely formed in cold conditions.

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The radar was also able to determine the size of the particles in these layers, which matched that of sand. Yet, the deposits don't resemble ancient, wind-blown dunes, which are common on Mars.

Image: The Chinese Mars rover Zhurong ... out that the structures detected by the rover were ancient rivers or sand dunes. "Beaches simply fit the observations the best," he said.

Researchers have discovered evidence of a 'vacation-style' environment on the Red Planet, despite there being no visible ...