This has been a most interesting year to follow Mars. If you've been monitoring the Red Planet since the start of 2025, you have no doubt noted the dramatic change in its brightness as well as the ...

A crater on Mars has a bright patch of ice. It's the second time in over a decade that the crater and ice has been observed ...

This is it. What we've all been waiting for. Mars and Earth will pair up on the same side of the sun Sunday (May 22), putting the two planets closer to one another than anytime in the past 10 years.

February might be our shortest month, but it’s far from bleak. The winter night sky will be beckoning us to look up all month long. In January, we were treated to a “Planet Parade” of four bright ...

Back in August of 2003, Earth passed within 35 million miles of Mars. It the closest the two planets had been in the past 60,000 years. The event made headlines around the world, and we hosted ...

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The European Space Agency said Tuesday that scientists will keep analyzing data from both orbiters, combining multiple images from Mars Express in the hope of detecting the faint comet. Interstellar ...