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

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

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

The surface of Mars averages about -80 degrees Fahrenheit, well too cold to be suitable for microbial life. A method using engineered dust particles released into the atmosphere that could potentially ...

Mars has long been cast as a frozen desert, but fresh data from China’s Zhurong rover are forcing scientists to picture ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

Skylights, openings in the surface of Mars that descend down into caves, have been found on Mars, along with signatures for the presence of water ice. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA's Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic ...