"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

New research suggests that Mars' missing atmosphere, long a mystery for planetary scientists, could be hiding within the planet's clay-rich surface. This surprising discovery sheds light on how ...

The rover landed in Utopia Planitia, a plain within the largest known impact basin on Mars, near a series of ridges in the planet’s northern hemisphere. Scientists have long questioned whether ...

One such formation, Utopia Planitia, a large plain in Mars’s northern hemisphere, was selected as the landing site for Zhurong, which touched down on Mars on May 15, 2021. The northern lowlands ...

Analyzing data collected by China's Zhurong Mars Rover, an international team of researchers have detected buried evidence of beaches beneath a plain on the Red Planet. The discovery, they say ...