That feature is Athabasca Valles, a system of valleys carved into volcanic plains on Mars. The Athabasca Valles system offers key insights into the history of water on the Red Planet, and its ...

Debris from ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars could offer new clues in the search for alien life, a new study suggests. The newly discovered rock type was found littered across the landing site ...

The rust was washed into the rivers, lakes and seas that used to cover Mars, becoming incorporated into the underlying rocks. Volcanic activity could also have triggered ice-melting events ...

We found that ferrihydrite mixed with basalt, a volcanic rock, best fits the minerals seen by spacecraft at Mars,” Valantinas explained. By recreating the dust, scientists were able to compare ...

and his colleagues previously suggested that volcanic activity in the region, as well as a change in Mars’ rotation, altered the shoreline and caused it to be uneven over time. “Because the ...

“We found that ferrihydrite mixed with basalt, a volcanic rock, best fits the minerals seen by spacecraft at Mars,” said Valantinas, who began his research at the University of Bern using ...

This stunning image of sandy dunes on Mars is a great example. The photo was snapped by the HiRISE camera built into NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and it’s immediately apparent that what ...

“Mars once had liquid water on its surface in ... Indeed, this mineral exists on our planet, often in volcanic settings such as lava caves. Using state-of-the-art equipment, as well as firsthand ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

Mars has shone red in the night sky for as long as humans have gazed up at the cosmos, fascinating people from the ancient Romans to the present day. "The fundamental question of why Mars is red ...

We found that ferrihydrite mixed with basalt, a volcanic rock, best fits the minerals seen by spacecraft at Mars," says lead author Adomas Valantinas, a postdoc at Brown University in the US ...