Mars is often described as silent, barren, and still. But beneath its dusty surface and cold skies, something unusual has ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure sports a pair of smooth, rocky wings, which were likely "fluidized" by buried ...

W hile the northern hemisphere of Earth makes its way through winter, the southern hemisphere of Mars is reaching the end of ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been flying our the red planet for the last 20 years, beaming back images of its surface captured by its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (left) ESA/TGO/CaSSIS (right) Every year the robots and satellites ...

Prevailing theories suggest that Mars was once covered in a major liquid water system of oceans, rivers, and lakes, which presupposes a thick atmosphere that could maintain temperatures at which ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

Mars' craters come from ancient collisions during the formation of the solar system. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Arizona State University via AP NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round ...