Despite being Earth's nearest planetary neighbour, Mars is a cold and desolate planet. But scientists think it wasn't always ...

In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the ...

Mars wasn’t always a dry, desolate world—it may have had sunlit beaches and rolling ocean waves, just like Earth. A new study ...

China's Mars rover discovered evidence of an ancient Red Planet beach. Here's why scientists are excited about this.

The Red Planet once had "habitable environments, capable of harboring conditions friendly" toward life, researchers believe.

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

Earth may now be home to the most glorious beaches in the solar system , but 3 billion years ago, it may have been Mars that ...

Scientists have used orbiters and rovers to find dried streams, lakes, and gullies on Mars that hint at its watery past, but ...

A Chinese rover found evidence of ancient beaches on Mars, suggesting the planet once had vast oceans 4 billion years ago.

A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once ...

Mars wasn't always the dusty red desert we know today. Billions of years ago, waves may have crashed against sandy beaches ...

"We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand—a proper, vacation-style beach," said geologist Benjamin Cardenas.