Mars holds a special place in the solar system. It represents marginal habitability. This means it transitioned from warm and wet and potentially hospitable, to cold and dry and inhospitable.

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A team of scientists using the NASA Curiosity rover recently performed the first successful wet-chemistry experiment on Mars, and their paper has just been published in Nature Communications. They ...

Researchers found geological features that suggest a massive ocean once covered a third of the planet. NASA's Curiosity rover discovered seven organic molecules never before seen on Mars. These ...