Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic ...

The surface of Mars looks like an empty red wasteland. But if you look a bit closer, the remnants of an ancient alien civilization begin to take shape. At least, that's the conclusion of George J.

Mars has a clear structure in its mantel, and its crust includes distinct reservoirs, scientists have said. Those are the findings from meteorites that originated 1.3 billion years ago on the red ...

New evidence of ancient rivers suggests Mars may have been a "blue planet," thanks to an ocean spanning its entire northern ...

"The structures that we were able to identify in the images are clearly the mouth of a river into an ocean." The post ...

Three billion years ago, you could have stood on Mars and watched a river spill into a sea. That picture is still speculative ...

Researchers investigated how bacteria, used to create bricks from Martian soil, react to perchlorate, a chemical found on Mars. While perchlorate slowed bacterial growth, it surprisingly resulted in ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

For anyone curious about what it's like to stand on another planet, Earth offers a few convincing previews. Mars may be 140 ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have investigated how bacteria that can mould Martian soil into brick-like structures fare in the presence of perchlorate, a toxic ...