Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a ...

Mid-latitude valleys and crater floors on the Red Planet reveal swirling deposits from ancient glacial flows. Mars may have had its own version of an Ice Age that reshaped parts of the Red Planet and ...

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle and a solid inner core. By Katrina Miller Three years ago, Martian dust ...

Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic red dust, ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic ...