In a nutshell NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered large deposits of siderite, a type of iron carbonate, in Gale Crater, ...

Tutolo led a new study of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover that might have answered this question. The mystery ...

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

A surprise discovery in Gale Crater is the component that was missing in the puzzle of Mars's climate history.

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red ...

Scientists are eager to find out whether Mars was once capable of supporting life, and according to new Curiosity findings, ...

The Curiosity rover identified hidden caches of the mineral siderite, which could help explain why Mars lost its habitable climate.

Billions of years ago, Mars was warm, wet, and capable of sustaining liquid water on its surface. Scientists have long ...

But Mars' carbon cycle is imbalanced ... Based in Toronto, Nicole covers all things science for CBC News. As an amateur astronomer, Nicole can be found looking up at the night sky appreciating ...

NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, and has travelled more than 34 kilometres on the Martian surface. The discovery of carbonate suggests that the atmosphere contained enough carbon ...

Findings could address a key mystery about Mars’s ancient past: How and when was the planet’s atmosphere thick enough to ...