If the explorers from Journey to the Center of the Earth were to journey to the center of Mars instead, they definitely wouldn’t come across the subterranean oceans or live dinosaurs they encountered ...

April 25 (UPI) --Scientists have confirmed that Mars' core is liquid as seismic wave measurements have given valuable first-time clues about how the Red Planet was formed. The findings, published in ...

Mars has a heavy heart after all. The Red Planet has a dense core of liquid iron surrounded by a relatively thin layer of molten rock, researchers report. The finding resolves a recent conundrum that ...

2023 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - Thibaut Roger - NCCR PlanetS - ETH Zurich. Scientists just took a better slice of Mars. Planet ...

Why it matters: NASA's InSight mission began studying Mars in 2018, and it didn't stop recording and sending data until its last breath, in December 2022. That trove of scientific data continues to ...

For four years, a lone robot sat on the dusty plains of Mars, listening. The InSight lander, a three-legged marvel of engineering, was sent to take the Red Planet’s pulse. There’s not much happening ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN. Research published in Science in 2021 provided the first sweeping seismic analysis of Mars, using data from InSight. That work overestimated the size of ...

From its signature red-colored soil to canyons, dead volcanoes and dry lake beds, the Martian landscape has intrigued humans for generations. Not only does it feature the largest mountain in our solar ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists revealed Wednesday that Mars’ innermost core appears to be a solid hunk of metal just like Earth’s. The Chinese-led research team based their findings on seismic ...

Mars appears to be a frozen expanse of red dust, gaping craters, and rocky terrain on the outside—but what lies beneath its wind-blasted surface? NASA’s InSight lander might have discovered this ...