The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one: liquid ...

As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...

The images and data being collected are already raising new questions about how the Martian surface was changing billions of ...

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Curiosity was back at work on Monday, ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...