A recent study has revealed that the red color of Mars is due to ferrihydrite, an iron oxide mineral. This finding suggests that Mars once had liquid water. NASA’s Perseverance rover ...

With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the potential source of that distinctive coloring, overturning a popular theory in the process.

A new study, based on data from China’s Zhurong rover, gives the ‘clearest evidence yet’ that billions of years ago, Mars had vast oceans, with buried coastlines beneath its now barren and ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life," he added. "It's thought that the earliest life on Earth began at locations like this, near the interface of air and shallow water." ...

The red coloration comes from iron minerals in Mars’ dust—no surprise there. But a team of ESA and NASA scientists now think that Mars rusted earlier in its ancient past than previously known ...

so this is painting a picture of ancient habitable environments, capable of harboring conditions friendly to microbial life," the geologist said. The ancient beaches detected on Mars, he added ...

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Present-day Mars is a barren and inhospitable planet ... it was in the interaction between oceans and land, so this is painting a picture of ancient habitable environments, capable of harboring ...

A study using radar data from China's now-dead Zhurong rover finds strong evidence that Mars had a stable ocean in the ancient past. Credit: Victor Habbick Visions / Science Photo Library / Getty ...