Mars, the dusty red planet we know today, may have once had ocean waves washing onto sandy beaches. New research using data from China’s Zhurong rover has uncovered underground evidence of ancient ...

An ancient civilization on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack ... he described being in the midst of the ruins of a megalithic city with gigantic pyramids,' said Reza Jorjani,.

A hypothetical picture of Mars 3.6 billion years ago, when an ocean may have covered nearly half the planet. The blue areas show the depth of the ocean filled to the shoreline level of the ancient, ...

“We’re finding places on Mars that used to look like ancient beaches and ancient river deltas,” said study coauthor Benjamin Cardenas, assistant professor of geology in the department of ...

The more we find out about ancient Mars the more it sounds like present-day Earth. With flowing water and an atmosphere that might have protected the roots of life, it’s entirely possible that ...

It ups the ante in terms of the ancient climate of Mars, suggesting that it had to be quite warm, at least for some extended time periods." A stock image of Rover on Mars surface. Elements of this ...

But they ended up discovering something else entirely: the largest organic compounds ever documented on Mars. The compounds ... to the potential existence of ancient Martian life.

Determining if Mars had an ancient ocean is pivotal for understanding whether it could have once supported life. According to Cardenas, oceanic environments on Earth are seen as prime sites for ...