The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too ...

For centuries, Mars has captivated the human imagination. Its reddish appearance has earned it the nickname “The Red Planet,” but is it really as red as we’ve been led to believe? While Mars certainly ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Scientists have known that Mars is rich in strange chemicals, especially chlorine-based compounds found by orbiters, rovers, ...

A recent photo from NASA's Curiosity rover gives an idea of what Mars would look like under skies that resemble our own on ...

Mars is known as the Red Planet, but scientists are still learning about what gives the planet its distinctive color. New research shows why the planet's surface has its rusty hue, and the findings ...

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...

If there’s one thing about space that anyone is likely to know, it is that Mars is red. Redness, in fact, is the defining quality of the fourth planet from the sun. Glimpsed from afar, through the ...

The red planet was half blue, according to space scientists. A research team using images from cameras on Mars-orbiting ...

There's been a lot of talk this week about our neighboring planet Mars. The main subject of wishful thinking for the dreamers on our own Earth, the ball of rock we affectionately call the Red Planet ...