NASA highlights some of the discoveries it has made on the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

The unique environment looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, with strange ... as a testing ground for ...

One of my gripes with "The Martian" movie was the depiction of the winds on Mars. The lower air density means that the sort ...

Anyone could make a mistake in thinking that the “fiction” bit of science fiction absolves the genre of any responsibility to ...

A study published in Icarus explores the possibility that Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed from asteroid debris torn apart by the planet’s gravitational forces. Researchers ran advanced ...

The surface in Mars' northern and southern hemisphere is ... the 1970s when NASA's Viking orbiter returned images of the Red Planet's unusual surface. The study published in the journal ...

The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring ...

These two planets are visible in the southwest sky.Mars is currently at opposition from the Sun. That means the Sun and the "Red Planet" are directly opposite from each other with Earth in the middle.

President Trump vowed Monday to be the first commander-in-chief to put US astronauts on Mars ... planet.” However, the tech billionaire has set the stage for a different set of rules on the Red ...

The company is one of NASA's largest contractors and is one of several currently working on projects related to Mars. So far, only unmanned rovers and orbiters have made it to the Red Planet.

This would indicate that water-rock interactions were going on over a very wide region early in the history of Mars, which likely required an extensive hydrological cycle on the red planet.

Look south anytime after dark, and you'll see the red planet Mars just a couple of degrees from bright star Pollux in Gemini, with the other “twin” of Gemini, Castor, close by. At 34 and 51 ...