NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the first clear evidence of a powerful sandstorm that swept across Mars billions of years ...

For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too complex to be written off as a dead world of simple basalt.

Scientists found microscopic garnet inside a Martian meteorite, revealing new clues about Mars' ancient geological history.

An artist's render of Mars. (Kevin M. Gill/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its magnetic field exists only in sparse patches. Its lakes and rivers have ...

Strange blobs found inside Mars by Nasa’s InSight lander may be remnants of the ancient “embryo” that eventually developed into the planet we see today, according to a new study. The findings, ...

Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a dramatic rise in ozone. Scientists found that the lack of sunlight and moisture ...

Astronauts train to scale a Mars volcano at an analogue site in France. Lava tubes that crisscross the Martian surface might provide sanctuaries for the first human explorers on the Red Planet. (Photo ...

On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone — popular in jewellery since the Bronze Age and valued highly by ancient Egyptians. Our team has now discovered a new rock type ...

For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too complex to be written off as a dead world of simple basalt. Now a new look ...