For decades, scientists believed that Mars’s famous red hue came mainly from hematite, a dry iron oxide mineral. However, a ...

The patches were earlier noticed by astronomers in Mars but they are baffled this time as the fractures are preserved very ...

A surprise solar storm turned a NASA simulation into a real-world space weather crisis. As the Gannon geomagnetic storm struck Earth, it disrupted satellites, grounded flights, heated the atmosphere ...

Precipitation, to be clear, includes any variant – not just water, but snow or freezing rain and other forms of water falling from the sky. Much like the Eastern Seaboard in winter, a "warm" Mars ...

On May 12, weather-station equipment on NASA's Curiosity rover (pictured 2021) recorded a high temperature of 11 degrees ...

Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a gravity assist from Jupiter. However, several ideas are in the works to speed ...

The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...

The BBC's Sky at Night Magazine reports that, should we ever get to stargaze on Mars, we'd see two moons - Phobos and Deimos - instead of just one. We wouldn't see as many satellites either, making it ...

NASA has big goals for Mars. The agency wants to collect the first samples from the Martian surface and return them to Earth ...

During its time on Mars, Curiosity has traveled nearly 19 miles, captured more than a million images, and continues to provide valuable data on Mars’ geology and climate.

The tough conditions on Mars have been underlined by the experience of the unmanned Curiosity rover. Just a year after ...

By listening to the echoes of "marsquakes" — seismic waves rippling through Mars ' crust — researchers uncovered signs of ...