The idea of an ancient Martian ocean has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, groundbreaking research based on radar scans ...

Impression of a rover on the surface of Mars). Mars was once home to a vast ... professor of Earth and planetary science. All the evidence points to an old shoreline, supporting the idea that ...

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

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

However, scientists have not given up hope of finding what they call LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor, the ancestral cell from which all living things we know are descended) beyond the ...

SEE ALSO: NASA asked for cheaper ways to get Mars samples. It had one all along. The new data comes from the Zhurong rover, part of China's Tianwen-1 mission, which landed on Mars in May 2021.

including several Mars’ rovers, and the findings were compared to lab experiments "where the team tested how light interacts with ferrihydrite particles and other minerals under simulated ...

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

Unlike other rovers traversing the planet ... with remarkable similarities to what can be found all over Earth. “We’re finding places on Mars that used to look like ancient beaches and ...