New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared New models from recent ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked ...

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

A photomosaic taken by the Curiosity Rover on April 30, 2023 at the Ubajara drill site in Gale Crater, Mars. Rock powder samples drilled here contained substantial amounts of siderite (an iron ...

Curiosity has spent over a decade in the Gale Crater, the Martian landmark in which it landed in 2012. The 100-mile-wide crater was formed by an asteroid impact some 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago.

That data, which was gathered in the Gale crater, shows that an extreme amount of evaporation is likely the cause of Mars’ hostile and waterless surface. The Curiosity rover on Mars. Image ...

Beyond giving the cracked surface of Mars' Gale Crater a semiprecious glint, these opals could be evidence that water and rock have been interacting beneath the Martian surface much more recently ...

NASA has just selected Gale Crater as the landing spot for its next Mars rover, Curiosity, which will launch late this year and arrive at the Red Planet in August 2012. Here's what you need to ...