Planetary scientists believe they can now predict the green glow of an aurora in the night sky above Mars, and they have the ...

Planetary scientists believe they can now predict the occurrence of green auroras in the Martian night sky, and they have images to prove it.

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

The Viking missions paved the way for future Mars missions and helped researchers understand the red planet’s climate and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's main goal is to detect faint light from distant galaxies, but it recently observed one of the brightest objects in the night sky: Mars. The space observatory captured ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found possible signs of ancient life in rocks on Mars, keeping scientists up at night.

Just last night, before bed, I was flipping through those photos of dry riverbeds sent back by the Curiosity rover, and the ...

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Here's what we know.

Lucasfilm’s ILM helped to bring the remarkable story of a Mars rover to audiences in Ryan White’s crowd-pleasing documentary feature. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor The story of Opportunity, the ...