Mars gets its red color from oxidized iron dust, and the oldest myth mistake remains the same: Mars is Roman, while Ares is Greek.

Still waters run deep.

Mars is often portrayed as humanity’s backup planet, but this video challenges that idea head-on. From radiation and dust toxicity to gravity-related health collapse, it explores why Mars may be far ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is investigating strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars that may reveal a hidden chapter of the planet’s watery history. These “boxwork” formations likely formed when groundwater ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

Thinking about food systems in deep space likely brings to mind something like The Martian where an astronaut is scratching barely enough food to survive out of potatoes grown in Martian regolith. Or ...

A huge solar storm struck Mars in 2024, supercharging its upper atmosphere and briefly disrupting spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet.

A complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed form one of Earth’s most ...

Spiderweb-shaped rock patterns on Mars may rewrite the timeline of when water disappeared from the Red Planet.

NASA's Curiosity rover discovered strange mineral nodules on massive spiderweb formations on Mars.

Despite his absence at the starry evening, Shepard gave Bell a sweet shout-out ahead of the big night in an Instagram post ...

NASA's Curiosity rover just found bizarre nodules on giant Martian "spiderwebs." Scientists are puzzled.