For more than a century, astronomers debated the possibility of martian canali (channels) which Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed to see on the Red Planet in 1877. Mistranslated into ...

Ancient Mars is coming into sharper focus as a planet laced with rivers, deltas and vast drainage basins, and that new map of its watery past is rapidly reshaping where scientists intend to look for ...

New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...