Researchers have developed a Martian atmospheric evolution model to propose a new theory about Mars's past. Although Mars is currently a cold, dry planet, geological evidence suggests that liquid ...

If you’re a scientist studying the surface of Mars, few discoveries could be more exciting than seeing recent gullies apparently formed by running water. And that’s what scientists believed they saw ...

A new study challenges the long-standing assumptions about the origin of Mars’s moons by suggesting the Red Planet may have once been surrounded by rings. The research, authored by Matija Ćuk, Kaustub ...

Mineral veins found in Mars’s Gale Crater were formed by the evaporation of ancient Martian lakes, a new study has shown. The research, by Mars Science Laboratory Participating Scientists at The Open ...

Researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology claim that analysis of Mars' composition supports the idea that it was originally formed in the asteroid belt, and then migrated to the inner solar ...

We’ve always known Mars as the Red Planet — but it turns out, we may have had the reason why wrong. If so, it could revise much of what we know about the history of our smaller neighbor planet. In a ...