In a study published on Feb. 2 in Communications: Earth & Environment, an international team of researchers reveals how, in ...

A northern summer dust storm on Mars boosted high-altitude water escape, suggesting short-lived events may play a bigger role ...

Mars, once a much wetter and more dynamic planet, is now a dry and inhospitable desert. The mystery of how the red planet ...

Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a newly adapted climate model, researchers showed that thin, seasonal ice ...

Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing. Using a climate model adapted for Martian conditions, a team of researchers ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

The surface of Mars has been modified by liquid surface water in the past, and there is abundant evidence that the planet’s surface was intermittently habitable. What controlled this potential ...

Mars has not always been a seemingly lifeless red desert. We have evidence that billions of years ago it had a warm, habitable climate with liquid water in lakes and flowing rivers, which is somewhat ...