Space fans: get excited, because Mars is heading closer to Earth! On Tuesday, the red planet will come the closest to Earth that it will be until 2035, NASA reported — but that distance is ...

the planet’s rusty red surface tells a story of destruction. Billions of years ago, the fourth planet from the sun could have been mistaken for Earth’s smaller twin, with liquid water on its ...

A British-built Mars rover that has been stranded on Earth since Russia's invasion of Ukraine may soon be heading to the Red ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed on the Red Planet ... remotely from Earth, have slowly navigated ...

The stunning lake is the only place on Earth with geology and mineralogy comparable to those of the ancient impact structure on the Red Planet. This striking similarity meant scientists flocked to ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull ... to redirect dangerous asteroids should one be headed towards Earth. Datasets gathered by ground-based optical ...

Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning that like Earth's moon, it continually shows the same face to the Red Planet. Most previous images of the small, 7.7-mile-wide (12.4 kilometers ...