We all know Mars is called “The Red Planet,” but have you ever stopped to wonder—why is it red? The classic joke explanation ...

Red planet comes alive! Minerals found on Mars signal a water and ‘possibly life-supporting’ past - Researchers used data ...

A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.

The Red Planet is rocky, much like Earth ... Mars has two small, potato-shaped moons, called Phobos and Deimos. These moons are named for two sons of the Greek god of war, Ares, which the Romans ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war ... defining the length of a Martian day, which is called a sol (short for “solar day”). Mars’s axis of rotation is tilted 25.2 degrees ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

Understanding how this rust formed offers a crucial glimpse into the planet ... for Mars' red dust is a combination of ...

just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic terrain of the Red Planet's Acheron Fossae region. One of the photos shows trough-like features called ...

The rover has been exploring the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater since February ... They adapted a new analytical method called “X-ray Backscatter Diffraction Mapping” to work with the rover ...