Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records ...

Using crater simulations, the researchers suggest that Mars’ magnetic field may have only started weakening significantly around 3.9 billion years ago. This revised timeline supports the ...

Researchers also emphasize that studying Mars’ past magnetic field could guide future missions targeting specific areas of ...

Mars has been born afresh ... and discovered a puzzling pattern of magnetic strips in the planet's surface—apparent remnants of an ancient global magnetic field. The craft had operated a ...

To plan a field campaign takes months ... we’d visited on previous missions to Mars. From the summit of Mount Sharp to the highlands of the crater rim to the close-up of those stones shaped ...

Scientists appear to have unravelled the mystery of Mars' "Martian dichotomy" - a contrast between its southern highlands and northern lowlands that's puzzled experts for over half a century.