"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Rovers exploring Mars study many aspects of the planet ... is exploring is located within the roughly 45km-wide Jezero impact crater, believed to be the site of an ancient lake.

Stromatolites offer an indication of what fossilized signs of life on Mars could look like ... when this staggering meteorite impact happened. australia craters Earth meteorites Asteroid 2024 ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...

Yet, the deposits don't resemble ancient, wind-blown dunes, which are common on Mars. "The structures don't look like sand dunes. They don't look like an impact crater. They don't look like lava ...

“On Earth, this early impact record has seemingly been lost, reflecting the destructive efficiency of erosion and subduction ...

Mars may have been a prime vacation spot millions ... “They don’t look like an impact crater. They don’t look like lava flows. That’s when we started thinking about oceans.” ...