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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com. Researchers can now say definitively that Mars once supported a watery environment, but whether the red planet could have ever supported life is still far from certain.
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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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Astronomers  have spotted a planet that has survived the massive ballooning of its parent  star, providing the first optimistic evidence for the long-term survival of  Earth.
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By JOHN JOHNSON JR.  NASA scientists announced Wednesday that they had found evidence that water still flows over the surface of Mars - sporadic gushers that increase the possibility that the Red Planet could harbor some form of life.
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NASA experts said they have detected evidence that liquid water existed on the surface of Mars in recent years, giving weight to hopes that signs of life on the Red Planet could still be found.
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Mars shows signs of geologically recent volcanic activity, and scientists find to their surprise that another volcanic blast may be in the Red Planet&#39;s future.
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Photographs 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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Scientists using data from a European probe orbiting Mars have made new topographic maps of the Red Planet.
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The possibility of a collision between Mars and an approaching asteroid has been effectively ruled out, according to scientists watching the space rock.
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Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity are going strong 10 months after they began their geological study of the red planet, mission scientists said Thursday.
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By Warren E. Leary  Pictures of Martian gullies taken several years apart strongly suggest that water still flows at least occasionally on the surface of the planet, scientists have announced.
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By ALICIA CHANG   Associated Press writer  LOS ANGELES  -- 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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LOS ANGELES - It may take much longer than scientists have thought for violent turbulence to turn grains of space dust into new planets.    A NASA telescope recently discovered evidence that the most violent part of the process in forming an Earth-sized planet - the collisions between colossal chunks of rock - may last hundreds of millions of years instead of 10 million years, scientists said Monday at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif...
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NASA's&nbsp;twin&nbsp;Mars rovers&nbsp;Spirit and Opportunity&nbsp;have  yielded volumes of new data about the red planet in the last year - the least of  which involves the planet's history of water. But the rovers have also amazed  their human handlers with their longevity, lasting nearly four times&nbsp;their  initial 90-day mission&nbsp;despite some early glitches that popped up after  landing.
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We are making dangerous discoveries in space. In April, astronomers found, on our cosmic doorstep, a planet dubbed Gliese 581c. Nestling close to a dim red star, it's a rocky world only a little larger than Earth. Like Earth, it could support liquid water.
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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.