China's Zhurong rover, part of the 2021 Tianwen-1 mission, has found the first clear signs of ancient beach deposits under Utopia Planitia, a huge plain in Mars' northern region. Radar scans from the ...

New climate modeling suggests that small lakes on ancient Mars could have stayed liquid for decades, even in a generally cold environment. Small lakes on early Mars may have stayed in liquid form for ...

Thin, seasonal ice may have protected ancient lakes on Mars, allowing liquid water to last for decades despite cold ...

If ancient Martian lakes persisted under seasonal ice rather than thick permanent ice, features on Mars that have been ...

The latest panorama from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover turns Mount Sharp from a distant backdrop into an overwhelming, ...