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Scientists believe modern technology to be crucial in 'supporting sustained missions' on Mars.

Mars is absolutely dripping with evidence that the red planet was once a striking blue, complete with glistening lakes, ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered the most definitive signs yet of an ancient Martian shoreline. The discovery, found ...

Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors.

The Curiosity Mars rover photographed more rocks that are shaped like coral on the red planet's surface. Researchers said the rocks were evidence that at one point water was on Mars. The Curiosity ...

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

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Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.