New climate modeling suggests that small lakes on ancient Mars could have stayed liquid for decades, even in a generally cold environment. Small lakes on early Mars may have stayed in liquid form for ...

Strange, narrow channels threading through some of Mars' sand dunes have intrigued scientists for years. These Martian features don't look like anything on Earth. Early theories proposed that flowing ...

A Martian mystery that sparked years of debate — an alleged lake buried beneath miles of ice — now looks far less watery than scientists hoped. A new radar study from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has taken a new and much clearer look at a confusing feature hidden deep under the Red Planet’s polar ice. In 2018, a different spacecraft picked up a bright ...

Mars is a marvel that can be visible to the naked eye to us humans on Earth but there has still long been an ancient mystery surrounding it. Why is Mars red? But now a new study may have finally ...

Thin, seasonal ice may have protected ancient lakes on Mars, allowing liquid water to last for decades despite cold temperatures.

Mini-lightning strikes created by whirling dust devils on Mars have been detected accidentally by the microphone on board the Perseverance rover. The chance discovery is direct evidence of a form of ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected for decades but... At long last, the mystery of lightning on Mars is ...

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