Mars wasn't always the cold desert we see today. There's increasing evidence that water once flowed on the red planet's ...

New research suggests Mars' missing atmosphere -- which dramatically diminished 3.5 billion years ago -- could be locked in the planet's clay-covered crust. Water on Mars could have set off a chain ...

New research suggests the atmosphere of Mars may be hiding in plain sight, having been absorbed by minerals in the Red Planet's clays. If Mars' envelope of gas did "go to ground" over 3 billion years ...

Two MIT geologists believe they’ve found the answer in Mars’ clay-covered crust. Interestingly, the study estimates that ...

Billions of years ago, Mars had a thick atmosphere and water, but in both cases, just a tiny amount remains today. Both ended ...

Over about a billion years, water trickling through the crust would have slowly reacted with olivine—a mineral that is rich ... gives the planet its iconic color. This free hydrogen would ...

Now researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US believe the answer may be “hiding in plain ...

researchers have found that taking a daily supplement containing antioxidant vitamins and minerals slows progression of late-stage dry age-related macular degeneration ...

Smectite clays on Earth are formed through the interaction of water with certain types of rocks, particularly those rich in the mineral olivine. These rocks react with water and carbon dioxide to ...