The ocean is believed to have been temporary and its water would have frozen and preserved underground or turned into vapor and lifted gradually into the atmosphere. The MARSIS radar on board the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has found evidence of a large body of water that once covered part of Mars. The study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters indicates that... 

Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity NASA has launched Atlas 5 rocket carrying the nuclear-powered rover, Curiosity, which is the world`s largest extraterrestrial explorer to Mars. The six-wheeled, one-armed robotic rover left Florida on Saturday at 15:02 GMT, the state-funded BBC reported. The one-ton rover is planned to search Martian soil and rocks for any signs... 

Phobos-Grunt probe is doomed to fall Chances of reviving an unresponsive Russian space probe headed for a moon of the Red Planet are now virtually zero. Hopelessly off-course, it is apparently doomed to fall back to Earth, though it is not clear when or where. Fixing the Phobos-Grunt and putting it back on track is now impossible. The probe will not be able to carry out its mission – to land on Phobos... 

The Mars500 project crew has returned to Earth after 520 days of living inside steel containers to simulate the length of a journey to the Red Planet. Three Russians, two EU citizens and a Chinese national spent 17 months in a 550-cubic-meter mock spaceship at a Moscow research institute as part of the $15 million Mars500 experiment aiming to investigate the psychological and physiological effects... 

Joseph Skipper, a well-known US researcher, a virtual archeologist, found railway tracks, a railway station and a railway carriage on the photos of Mars. Skipper is known for his meticulous studies of high-resolution Google Mars space images, Dni.ru website reports. This time, the researcher found a whole transport system on the photos. Many are skeptical about Skipper’s discovery. There is... 

The population is due to hit 10 billion in just a few decades, bringing thoughts of colonizing a new planet. On October 31, Earth’s 7-billionth inhabitant was born. The population is due to hit 10 billion in just a few decades, bringing thoughts of colonizing a new planet. But which one? Mercury is too hot; Pluto is too cold. Mars? That’ll do nicely. As the population of Earth passes the seven... 

The Phobos-Grunt lander is designed to land on the Martian moon Phobos, return soil samples to Earth, study its physicochemical characteristics, collect data on the origin of Mars moons, Mars atmosphere and the interaction between small bodies of the Solar System and solar winds. Constructors of the Fobos-Grunt probe have revealed details of the space mission to Mars, which is to break a 20-year absence... 

Mars’s Icy North Pole There’s a good explanation for why life may exist on Mars. In the Earth’s past there was powerful volcanic activity which could have easily spewed dirt and rocks containing microbes into outer space which not only could have eventually reached Mars but also ended up traveling in orbit through space that we now know as meteors. A Newsweek article of September... 

A sequence of new photographs released by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show evidence of flowing, liquid water on the mountains of the Red Planet. According to the report published in the journal Science, the images show long, dark “tendrils” a few meters wide, the BBC reported. The flowing water can be seen between rocky outcrops flowing hundreds of meters down steep slopes towards... 

It was just few days ago that 46 year old Matteo Ianneo from Italy discovered a weird human face on Mars. Now he has contacted us to let us know that there are actually more of these faces on Mars, while he promises to reveal even more stunning details. This could alter the history of humans forever. If it is true, and it’s highly likely to be true because these images are from Google Mars,... 

Wow this is some find! It was sent to us from Matteo Ianneo in Italy. Bravo. Sure looks like a face to me. The coordinates, Latitude 33°12’29.82″N, Longitude 12°55’51.21″W, are confirmed and are found in the Google map of Mars. Forty-six year old Ianneo says he is passionate about the riddles of Mars. He is from from the Puglia Region and the town of Cerignola (FG). Ianneo... 

A new word is launched in Russia: a Marsonaut. The six members of the simulation programme for a visit to Mars have started the third phase of the experiment, namely a Mars landing followed by the first Mars walk. The Russian flag now flies firmly and proudly on the Red Planet! Work is under way in Russia in the first active tests in the simulation phase of the manned space flight to Mars. The multinational... 

The crewmembers will soon step out on a simulated Martian surface. The crew of the Mars500 simulated mission to the Red Planet have reached a key milestone. The six men, sealed since June inside steel containers representing a spacecraft, have “gone into orbit” at their destination. Three of the group will now “descend” to the planet, don real spacesuits and walk on the “surface”... 

"Biomorphs" found on meteorites traced to Mars have been proposed as evidence that life has existed on the Red Planet. NASA’s Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old controversy on extraterrestrial life last week, reaffirming and offering support for its widely challenged assertion that a 4-billion-year-old meteorite that landed thousands of years ago on Antarctica shows... 

Mystery ... scientists are already planning more missions to Mars NASA scientists last night unveiled compelling evidence of life on Mars. A special mission to the Red Planet has revealed the likely presence of a form of pond scum – the building blocks of life as we know it. NASA unveiled the results of the recent Opportunity and Spirit probes sent millions of miles through the solar system to...