The strongest hints yet that Mars once hosted living microbes are no longer theoretical models or ambiguous chemistry. They are etched into a single, oddly speckled rock in an ancient riverbed, where ...

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Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ones for the first time. Researchers mapped 16 massive drainage basins ...

Data collected by China’s Zhurong rover has provided new evidence that Mars may once have hosted large oceans. Subsurface radar and geological features suggest the presence of ancient shorelines and ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold.

New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...

What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to ...

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