NASA’s Perseverance rover is tirelessly exploring Mars and recently overcame a rocky challenge to collect another valuable ...

China's Zhurong rover has found evidence of an ancient shoreline buried deep beneath the planet. That could point to an ocean, a beach, and to life.

For decades, scientists have debated the mystery ofMars’ lost water. Now, a new discovery has provided some of the strongest evidence yet that the Red Planet once had vast oceans. Using ...

“We’re finding places on Mars that used to look like ancient beaches and ancient river deltas,” said Benjamin Cardenas, the study co-author and assistant professor of geology at Penn State.

Step aside, Santa Monica. It seems that Mars once had beaches that would give the Californian coast a run for its money.

New research from China's Mars rover has found evidence of an ancient beach on the planet.In 2021, The Zhurong rover landed in the 'Utopia Basin,' an area of th ...

“We’re finding places on Mars that used to look like ancient beaches and ancient river deltas,” Benjamin Cardenas, a Penn State assistant professor of geology and study co-author, said in an ...

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This left behind plentiful salt and sulfate deposits, including gypsum, in an environment that was very similar to how Mars' dried-up lake- and river-beds are today. "These deposits provide an ...