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For years, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring the slopes of Mount Sharp inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater, ...
With just a splash of color, the red planet's horizons can look remarkably like our own – blue skies and all. A 360-degree panorama, taken by the Perseverance Rover on Mars, could just as easily have ...
At first glance, Mars looks completely different from Earth. It’s got that dusty red surface, eerie atmosphere, and absolutely no blue oceans or green forests in sight. But here’s the weird part: a ...
The first paper, published in Nature, looks at the current conditions of Mars' core. This new paper suggests the core has two parts: a solid inner core and liquid outer core. That makes it similar to ...
With its reddish-hued surface and surroundings, Mars has more than earned its colorful nickname. But how would the Red Planet appear under clear-blue Earth skies? Thanks to a NASA rover wandering the ...
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Does Mars have a moon?

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, and Hall had one question on his ...
For more than 20 years, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter has been imaging the surface of the Red Planet. One region, in particular, continues to fascinate the Mars Express team, ...
Unusual rocks discovered on Mars contain the most tantalising evidence yet of potential past life on the Red Planet. The ...
The robotic rover in May captured what NASA described as "one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far." NASA released the mosaic in August, which, with color-enhancing technology, unveils the ...