European space researchers have discovered a bizarre phenomenon on Mars: thousands of dark formations resembling giant ...

Mars has fascinated people for centuries, not only because it is our closest neighbor in space but also because of its ...

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is ...

Mars has shone red in the night sky for as long as humans have gazed up at the cosmos, fascinating people from the ancient Romans to the present day. "The fundamental question of why Mars is red ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

The color red and the planet Mars go together like Earth and its oceans or Saturn and its rings. However, our understanding of how the Red Planet got its signature hue might be wrong. A new ...

The previous opposition was on January 16, and as Mars recedes from Earth, March provides another good chance to see the Red Planet at its best. Anyone with an unobstructed view of the night sky ...

An arrowhead-shaped rock on Mars sporting features that may hint at ancient microbial activity on the Red Planet has left ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Mars is easily identifiable in the night sky by its prominent red hue. Thanks to the fleet of spacecraft that have studied the planet over the last decades, we know that this red color is due to ...

The red coloration comes from iron minerals in Mars’ dust—no surprise there. But a team of ESA and NASA scientists now think that Mars rusted earlier in its ancient past than previously known ...