A 14-year-old from Pleasanton is using cutting-edge artificial intelligence in hopes of solving a problem that occurred ...

Mars Rover accidentally ran over a rock and broke it open — revealing mysterious yellow crystals inside More life-related ...

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the planet's violently varying tilt may be a key factor.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

Martian dust devils may spark with electricity, potentially zapping rovers. New models show that charged dust could interfere ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found iron-rich carbonates on Mars — a major clue that the Red Planet used to be habitable. ... "It tells us that the planet was habitable and that the models for ...

"Past climates with surface and shallow-subsurface liquid water are recorded by Mars's sedimentary rocks, including strata in the approximately 4-kilometer-thick [circa 2.5 miles thick] record at Gale ...

First Visible Aurora Spotted Over Mars: A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists point the NASA Rover’s cameras toward the Red Planet’s sky to spot a feature shared with Earth..

NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, ... "It tells us that the planet was habitable and that the models for habitability are correct," he says.

Rover finds hints of an ancient Martian carbon cycle ... But before tackling more far-reaching questions, his team wants to work on new Mars climate models that will reflect these new findings.