The Mars Volta surprised concertgoers with a setlist of new material while opening for Deftones in Portland on Tuesday night (February 25th). It would appear that the songs are from the experimental ...

Mars may have once been a paradise with Earth-like oceans and balmy beaches that would have been ideal for harboring living organisms, according to a new study. An international team of ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Mars has captivated scientists and the public alike for centuries. One reason is the planet’s reddish hue, earning the fourth rock from the sun its best-known ...

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen ...

Go back a mere four billion years, and Mars could have been the perfect destination for a summer holiday. According to scientists, hidden underneath the red planet is evidence that there were once ...

Frigid water helped paint Mars red and may have shaped a vast coastline, two new studies into the planet’s history reveal. Scientists have detected a possible ancient beach in Mars’ northern ...

Mars has shone red in the night sky for as long as humans have gazed up at the cosmos, fascinating people from the ancient Romans to the present day. "The fundamental question of why Mars is red ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A 3-billion-year-old beach has been discovered on Mars, suggesting the presence of an ancient ocean. Data from the Zhurong rover, using ground-penetrating radar ...

Now, a new discovery could draw us one step closer to finding out whether life once existed on Mars. A Chinese rover that landed on the red planet in 2021 has found evidence of underground beaches ...

Samples of Mars' dust, and even evidence of ancient life, could have already been collected by the Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Jezero crater since 2021.

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Present-day Mars is a barren and inhospitable planet, but it may have once had sandy beaches and tranquil ocean vistas. According to findings published on February 24 in the Proceedings of the ...