A French team of scientists from the Laboratory for Atmospheres and Space Observations discovered the largest organic ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on ...

A new sculpture of Mars has opened for visitors of Colchester Castle, following on from the success of the previous Gaia ...

After over 11 years of exploring the harsh Martian landscape, NASA’s Curiosity Rover is showing visible signs of wear and ...

“We tend to think about Mars as just a static snapshot of a planet, but it was evolving ... This type of sedimentary geology can tell us what the landscape looked like, how they evolved ...

As far as we know, ours is the only planet capable of supporting ... but that is the extent of it. Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape – attractive but dead, and certainly not home ...

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is likely what gives the planet its reddish hue.

Earthlings have known about the existence of Mars, the fourth planet from the sun it also orbits, since ancient times. Although the celestial body is located 140 million miles away from Earth ...

Mars' atmosphere is too cold and then to support life now, but billions of years ago the planet had an abundance of water, NASA said, which is also evidenced in the ferrihydrite found in its dust.