Mars does not have Earth’s kind of magnetic shield, so it has often been treated as the solar system’s more exposed world. It ...

From Mars, Earth transits the Sun four times in a 284-year cycle. The transits occur in either May or November at intervals of 100.5, 79, 25.5, and 79 years. During these events, Earth and the Moon ...

Blue sunsets, whirling dust devils, giant volcanoes, tiny moons, and marsquakes—there’s a lot to discover on Mars!

Mars is a desert world today—but it wasn't always Editor at Large Mars is a place of mysteries. Was it ever—or is it now—home to life? Why did it lose its magnetic field, allowing the solar wind to ...

Mars is on the cusp of becoming bigger and brighter than at any point since 2022 as it comes into alignment with Earth and the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

For decades, one of the biggest challenges of sending humans to Mars hasn’t just been getting there, it’s getting back.

A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would halve the time it takes to travel to the planet and back to less than a year.

From Dec. 6 through Feb. 23, Mars will enter retrograde motion, a period of about 10 weeks where the red planet will appear to move backward in the sky. Are you experiencing inner tension, heightened ...

This clip was recorded in 2022 by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars. The footage is significant because it shows Mars’ largest moon, Phobos, crossing in front of the Sun in real time. The original ...