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 Australia's remote deserts to the surface of Mars, geological mapping underpins how we understand landscapes, natural ...

NASA’s Psyche mission to investigate a metal-rich asteroid captured rare glimpses of Mars during a recent flyby.

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a ...

Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

Last fall, a Chinese spacecraft orbiting Mars captured images of a comet from another star system, offering scientists a ...

After five years of rolling across Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover is still going strong. And it has the selfies to prove it. NASA highlighted its “six-wheeled scientist’s l ...

Reading the "Mars Trilogy" by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the red planet into sharp relief. Since the 1970s, when Carl Sagan first suggested the ...

Pathfinder is 223,124,158.5 km away from mission control today. The Pathfinder mission has been quiet again today, as the lander recharges its batteries. JPL has released no further information today.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched a USD 135 million (Rs 890 crore) Mars Science City project to provide a "viable and realistic model" to simulate living on the surface of Mars. The city, ...

The rusty world is full of mysteries—and some of the solar system's most extreme geology. Learn more about Earth's smaller, colder neighbor.