Red Planet is still geologically active, researchers claim
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Mars, the red planet, may not after all be the dead planet. New research yesterday by European scientists suggests that volcanoes on Mars last erupted only 2 million years ago and could erupt again.
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Evidence from the Mars exploration rovers Spirit and Opportunity has led scientists to suggest that water was once present in large quantities on the red planet.
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An asteroid hurtling towards Mars has a one in 75 chance of chance of scoring a direct hit on the red planet next month, NASA experts said in a statement Friday.
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After decades of scouring images of Mars for signs of water, scientists believe they have found stunning evidence that water may even now be flowing through the Red Planet's frigid surface.
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Photographs taken by a spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that active volcanoes may still exist on the planet, a finding that further erodes its image as a dead world.
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A Mars-orbiting spacecraft has spotted a subterranean natural plumbing system that might have  ferried water beneath the surface of the red planet in the distant past.
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Volcanoes on Mars have been active within the past 2 million years and could erupt in the future, according to an analysis of images from the European Space Agency&#39;s Mars Express orbiter.
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By Alicia Chang THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  For decades, scientists have scoured Mars in search of water, a basic ingredient for primitive life.  But the best clues were always tied to the ancient past when the Red Planet was warmer and wetter.
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A frozen sea found on Mars is one of the most promising places to look for life on the Red Planet, scientists say.
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Photographs taken by a spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that active volcanoes may still exist on the red planet, further eroding its image as a dead world and offering prime sites to prospect for signs of Martian life.
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Ancient bacteria are able to survive nearly half a million years in harsh, frozen conditions, researchers said on Monday in a study that adds to arguments that permafrost environments on Mars could harbor life.
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10 billion years old Italian astronomers have detected a planet that survived the red giant expansion of its home star. The researchers say that the discovery could be a sneak peek at the fate that awaits the Earth, some four or five billion years from now.â¦
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Pictures of Martian gullies taken years apart suggest that water still flows on the surface of the planet.
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The Mars rovers have found fresh evidence that water was plentiful in both the hills and plains of the now-barren Red Planet, scientists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Thursday.
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The observations by NASA&#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope, linking with previous data from European satellites, demonstrated that the dust clouds in these proto-planetary disks did not steadily fade away over a few million years.
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Signs of ancient eruptions indicate a planet geologically active and may suggest presence of simple life forms.
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New infrared observations of the disks of dust and rock around young stars reveal that many planets apparently form in an environment more violent and chaotic over a longer period of