Photo: Map of Utopia Planitia, Zhurong Mars rover landing site, and four possible ancient shorelines. Photo: Courtesy of the Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Ac ...

Mars may have once had a vast, ice-free ocean, according to new evidence from China’s Zhurong rover. Using ground-penetrating ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Evidence suggests Mars once had an ancient ocean, with data from China's Zhurong rover revealing coastal deposits beneath the ...