The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one — liquid ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

The images and data being collected are already raising new questions about how the Martian surface was changing billions of ...

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...

Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Curiosity was back at work on Monday, ...