An artist's conception of the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter flying above Mars. Credit: ESA / Alex Lutkus Long ago, Mars teemed with water. New imagery captured by the European Space ...

Why it's incredible: The lake is the only place on Earth that's similar to Jezero crater on Mars. Lake Salda is a body of water in Turkey that bears a strong resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater. The ...

For the first time, scientists have found a large, watery lake beneath an ice cap on Mars. Because water is essential to life, the discovery offers an exciting new place to search for life-forms ...

ESA's Mars Express spacecraft captured a view of the Caralis Chaos region where scientists suspect a large lake once dominated the landscape. It’s hard to imagine dry and dusty Mars as a watery ...

A Martian mystery that sparked years of debate — an alleged lake buried beneath miles of ice — now looks far less watery than scientists hoped. A new radar study from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance ...

Compacted layers of ice might be mimicking the radar echo of subterranean liquid water. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Doubt has ...

“Follow the water” has long been the mantra of scientists searching for life beyond Earth. After all, the only known cradle of life in the cosmos is the watery planet we call home. But now there’s ...

Scientists studying images from The University of Arizona-led High Resolution Imaging Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have discovered never-before-seen impact “megabreccia” and ...

Lake Salda is a body of water in Turkey that bears a strong resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater. The stunning lake is the only place on Earth with geology and mineralogy comparable to those of the ...

For seven years, a puzzling signal beneath the Martian south pole has divided planetary scientists over whether a hidden lake of liquid water could really exist in such brutal cold. Now NASA ...