Whether you’re thinking about the future of Mars and how to send humans there, or trying to understand its past and see how the planet became the way it is today, one particular feature is crucially ...

Mars is an intriguing planet. Once believed to be abundant in water, the atmosphere has long since thinned, leaving the planet a shell of what it once was. The planet's history has also long been an ...

The first Mars ancient water map was developed. The European Space Agency created this new tech using data from the Mars Express Observatory. Scientists say that a huge sea of ice may lie under the ...

A new “water map” of Mars could offer fresh clues about the planet’s past — and potential landing spots for the future. Researchers from the European Space Agency (ESA) spent a decade developing the ...

It didn’t take long for National Geographic Explorer Marc Bierkens to catch what he calls “the research virus,” at his first hydrology internship. A graduate student at Wageningen University in his ...

Narrowing down the location of buried ice on Mars could help the space agency decided where to land its astronauts on future missions. Reading time 3 minutes A new map of subsurface water on Mars just ...

The Environmental Working Group (EWG)’s Tap Water Database reveals the states with the highest numbers of contaminants across their drinking water systems, with some states having more than 150 ...