Determining when water first appeared, where, and for how long, are all burning questions that drive Mars exploration.

The zircon we studied is 4.45 billion years old. Within it, iron, aluminum and sodium are preserved in abundance patterns like concentric layers, similar to an onion. This pattern, called ...

A zircon crystal blasted off the face of Mars before landing on Earth as part of one of the most unusual meteorites ever ...

A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way ...

The essential ingredient for life, water, appeared on both planets around 4.4 billion years ago, new research indicates.

SCIENTISTS have claimed that a mysterious black rock from Mars suggests that aliens could have bathed in hot springs on the ...