Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing.

Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open ...

The presence of a 12-mile long lake under the south pole of Mars was probably just a technology glitch, scientists have said, dampening hopes that life may exist there. In 2018, the European Space ...

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 ...

Is Mars home to an underwater lake? Different researchers are reaching different conclusions. Some say remote sensing from the Mars Express orbiter shows liquid water in an underground lake at Mars’ ...

The Perseverance rover, which spent months traveling to Mars, could hardly have landed in a more interesting spot. The Jezero crater — a dry, wind-scoured patch of Martian rock where the rover touched ...

Doubt has been cast on the possibility of a lake of liquid water buried beneath Mars' southern ice cap by new computer simulations, which suggest that closely compacted layers of ice could produce the ...

Mars once hosted a lake larger than any on Earth. The broken-down and dried-up remnants of this ancient lakebed are shown here in amazing detail by ESA's Mars Express. This patch of Mars—shown in a ...

An ancient river delta at the site where NASA's Perseverance rover landed might hold proof of past life on Mars. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, 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 ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover team has confirmed that the red planet’s Jezero Crater was once the site of a delta-lake system. In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, the researchers ...

This Aug. 26, 2003, image made available by NASA shows Mars as it lines up with the Sun and the Earth. Photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, it was about 55.8 million kilometers (34.6 million ...