NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy exploring Mars' "Wild West." ...

Mars is famous for its red dust. So it’s easy to guess that the frozen water near its north pole is grimy, too.

The Mars we know today is a cold, dry world of dust and rocks. However, around 3.8–3.6 billion years ago, it may have looked very different. Geological and mineral evidence suggests that, in its ...

NASA/Theophilus Britt Griswold. Contrary to Earth, present-day Mars has little to no volcanic or tectonic activity.

Rocket Lab’s out-of-the-blue protest against NASA’s commissioning Blue Origin to develop the Mars Telecommunications Network ...

On September 30, 2026, the Red Planet began its 38th year according to the Martian calendar, marking the start of another ...

This image of Mars shows what it might be like to stand on the Red Planet and look across into the distance. But it also ...

Jupiter disappears behind a crescent moon while Saturn reaches opposition in a month packed with planetary skywatching treats ...

Did Earth and Mars form the same? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an ...

Four and a half billion years ago, Earth and Mars were born in the rotating cloud of gas and dust that would eventually ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...