Mars has always captured human imagination with its striking red hues and mysterious landscapes. Recent images from NASA’s Mars Orbiter unveiled a peculiar geological feature that has intrigued ...

On the Red Planet’s northern hemisphere, there are frozen sand dunes that look just like kidney beans-but you definitely can’t […] ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

Mars may once have held enough water to fill oceans and form coastlines. The planet’s red dust contains water and likely formed in cold conditions.

A hypothetical picture of Mars 3.6 billion years ago ... "The structures don't look like sand dunes. They don't look like an impact crater. They don't look like lava flows. That's when we started ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and characterize life and its biosignatures in frozen sand dunes in Alaska, under ...

When NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter attempts its first test flight on the Red Planet, the agency's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will be close by, as seen in this artist's concept. NASA MARCI ...

MARS once looked like a tropical holiday destination ... "The structures don't look like sand dunes. They don't look like an impact crater. They don't look like lava flows. That's when we started ...

The radar was also able to determine the size of the particles in these layers, which matched that of sand. Yet, the deposits don't resemble ancient, wind-blown dunes, which are common on Mars.

Mars may have been a prime vacation spot millions ... “The structures don’t look like sand dunes,” said Michael Manga, a University of California, Berkeley professor.