A groundbreaking discovery has revealed that Mars’ surface shares striking similarities with Earth’s coldest regions. Published in the journal Icarus, new research by scientists at the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A red planet on the left; on the right are two graphs showing the brightness of clouds observed in Mars' atmosphere. An ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Scientists around the world are analyzing Mars for any signs of past life, and now a new study has provided evidence that suggests Mars once had the right ...

Orthophoto of solifluction lobes in Norway (The Norwegian Mapping Authority) with overlays (lower right) of fluid contact line instabilities in a numerical model (; Kondic and Diez, 2001) and physical ...

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...

After decades of research to discern seasonal patterns in Martian dust storms from images showing the dust, but the clearest pattern appears to be captured by measuring the temperature of the Red ...

The Phoenix Mars Lander has found quilt-like patterns on the flat, northern polar region of Mars. Some media reports are calling it "strangely patterned." Indeed, is this "crazy-quilt" description out ...

The first journal article about clouds identified by participants of the Cloudspotting on Mars project has been accepted for publication and is now available online. The article, "The Cloudspotting on ...

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PASADENA, Calif. — Climate cycles persisting for millions of years on ancient Mars left a record of rhythmic patterns in thick stacks of sedimentary rock layers, revealed in three-dimensional detail ...