NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

The story of the red planet, it turns out, may be due for a revision. At one time, experts thought that Mars was covered with fields of rocks with iron trapped inside. Somehow or other, and over a ...

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Ancient Mars once teemed with flowing rivers, forming vast drainage systems. A new study has mapped these large basins, ...

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