Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to ...

As it whooshed over the Gale Crater on February 28, the orbiter snapped a picture of the rover, which appears as a tiny black ...

Co-owner Rosalie Page said her business' phones have been ringing non-stop, but not everyone can drill a well on their ...

Imagery of fractured terrain on Venus, Mars, and Jupiter’s moon Europa pinpoints environments influenced by water.

Samples drilled by the Curiosity rover on Mars have revealed abundant signs of a carbon cycle that remained hidden from ...

Not all of it. Earlier this year, US president Donald Trump promised Congress that he would “lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond”. He’s wrong, ...

There are features on the Martian landscape that many scientists have interpreted as signs that liquid water ... over Mars’ ...

Mars is a desert planet, devoid of oxygen, and with an atmosphere so thin that it prevents the accumulation of liquid water on its surface ... thermonuclear reactor (running on local hydrogen ...

Most scientists today agree that at least some water existed on the surface of Mars during the Noachian epoch, roughly 4.1 to 3.7 billion years ago. But where that water came from has long been a ...