Multi-billion-year-old mud cracks on the surface of Mars are helping researchers piece together the ancient history of our planetary neighbor’s climate. Observed by NASA’s Curiosity rover in 2021, the ...

Scientists have broadly agreed for years that the thousands of small cone-shaped mounds peppering Mars’ northern lowlands are ...

Mud volcanoes on Mars could be the cause of distinctive features that most researchers had thought were left over from ancient lava flows. Tens of thousands of channels spread out over the Martian ...

The surface of Mars’ Pontours rock contains a network of hexagonal mud cracks that hints at historical seasons of flooding and drying. NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / IRAP Mars, as we know it, is a frigid ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has been tootling across the martian surface since 2012, its lofty quest to determine if Mars ever had environmental conditions suitable for microbial life. While it’s already ...

The surface of Mars is covered in intriguing features that suggest hints about the planet's past and the water that once existed on its surface. New research has suggested that some lava-like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stretches of sand dunes. Planetary scientists want to search for biosignatures in what they believe was once a Martian mud lake.

Arsia Mons once spewed molten rock across the surface of Mars, but some smaller volcanic features may have come from another source. (NASA/JPL/USGS/) Mars’s northern lowlands are dotted with tens of ...

Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars, has an interesting and complex history. One of the intriguing features is a field of mounds showing circular depressions at their ...

Mud flows exposed to the low atmospheric pressures and temperatures on Mars behave in a similar way to lava flows in Hawaii, study suggests. Sign Up and be kept in the loop each and every day with our ...

So a science experiment aboard NASA's Curiosity Rover has found tantalizing traces of possible past life on Mars. DANIEL GLAVIN: We're really living kind of a science fiction film, if you will, here.

Scientists used NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover in recent weeks to examine slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud. “Mud cracks are the most likely ...