NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...

More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...

Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

Research published late last year indicated “seismic discontinuities in the Martian crust” that scientists believe could be an indicator of liquid water under the Martian surface, raising the ...

The fundamental question of why Mars is red has been considered for hundreds if not for thousands of years,” Adam Valantinas, ...

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is ...

In the 1970s, NASA’s Mariner 9 and Viking 2 were the first missions ... Multiple spacecraft have captured observations that ...

A new study conducted using existing data on Mars points to ferrihydrite, a substance that forms in the presence of water, ...

Mars just dropped a surprise golden nugget —literally. Curiosity accidentally cracked open an ordinary-looking rock, only to ...

Ferrihydrite, a water-rich iron mineral, plays an important role in giving the red planet its signature hue, according to the ...