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

An alternative source of phosphorus may be the mineral olivine. Given that olivine makes up a large part of the upper mantle of Earth and presumably other rocky planets and moons, it stands to reason ...

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 ...

Image: Corps Olivine, which has a light green tint, is a common magnesium silicate mineral similar to the quartz in Outer Banks sand. When it dissolves in seawater, it has the unique ability to remove ...

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 ...

This is a list of minerals which have Wikipedia articles. Minerals are distinguished by various chemical and physical properties. Differences in chemical composition and crystal structure distinguish ...