Over the past decade, the Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on the surface of Mars. This gas is often produced ...

Scientists have pondered why Mars seemed to be missing sufficient carbonates indicative of its warm, wet past. Now, NASA’s ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered evidence of a past carbon cycle on Mars. This breakthrough provides scientists with new ...

Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to achieve this could be to bombard the Red Planet with water-rich asteroids.

That has led them to believe that though Mars' atmosphere is extremely thin today ... Over time, some of that gas escaped into space, but enough probably stayed to support lakes and rivers.

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and one of our closest neighbors in space. But it’s not a very welcoming place for an ...

Its presence in sedimentary rocks formed billions of years ago offers evidence that Mars once had a dense atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide, a gas that would have warmed the planet through the ...

Astronauts could use Mars’s natural resources to grow food. Mars’s atmosphere consists mostly of carbon dioxide, an essential gas for plant survival, and Martian soil has the essential nutrients ...

Its presence in sedimentary rocks formed billions of years ago offers evidence that Mars once had a dense atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide, a gas that would have warmed the planet through the ...

WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient ...