Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

Data from China's Zhurong rover on Mars suggests an ancient ocean and strengthens evidence that the planet was once warm, wet, and habitable.

Mars may have once been home to sun-soaked, sandy beaches with gentle, lapping waves according to a new study.

SEE ALSO: NASA asked for cheaper ways to get Mars samples. It had one all along. The new data comes from the Zhurong rover, part of China's Tianwen-1 mission, which landed on Mars in May 2021.

Scientists have tested a laser-powered mass spectrometer on Earth to detect fossilized microbes in minerals similar to those on Mars.

Rovers exploring Mars study many aspects of the planet ... visible by ground-penetrating radar down to at least 30 meters. All the layers also dip shallowly into the basin, away from the ...

Scientists once believed our planetary next-door neighbor got its rusty hue from hematite, a common iron ore known for its ...

The Zhurong rover landed on Mars in 2021 in an area known as Utopia ... which allows us to do geology that we could have never done before. All these incredible advancements in technology have ...

The ocean - known as Deuteronilus - would have existed roughly 3.5 to four billion years ago, a time when Mars had a thicker ...

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover discovered symmetric ripple ... The finding is evidence that not all water on the Red Planet was covered in ice, as some Martian climate models suggest.