Jezero Crater on Mars was once home to a lake, delta and rivers. See an animation of what it could have looked like when water poured into the crater billions of years ago and present day. Credit: ...

"Some of these features are surprisingly dark compared with their icy surroundings, earning their nickname of 'cryptic ...

Mars once hosted a lake larger than any on Earth. The broken-down and dried-up remnants of this ancient lakebed are shown here in amazing detail by ESA's Mars Express. This patch of Mars—shown ...

Photosynthetic habitable zones' could exist beneath radiation-filtering ice on Mars, offering scientists another region in ...

Billions of years ago, waves on the surface of a shallow lake stirred up sediment at the ... of waves and water that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover ... [+] has ever found. Recent ripple marks ...

NASA has released the clearest view of Mars seen thus far, with a field of blue rocks seen on the Martian landscape on top of an ancient lake.

A new study of ancient rocks on Mars reveals how the planet was likely uninhabitable — at least on the surface — after much ...

Newly released images of Mars reveal a "smiley" salt deposit on ... is the remnant of an ancient lake that dried up billions of years ago — and could be harboring signs of former life on the ...

From the stark warning from climate scientists about the dangers of letting temperatures rise beyond 1.5C to the discovery of a 20km-wide liquid water lake on Mars, it was a memorable year.