Teodoro Valente, president of the Italian Space Agency (known by its Italian acronym ASI), announced today (Aug. 7) that the ...

Thirteen years into its mission, NASA's Curiosity rover is still uncovering Martian mysteries — and learning to do more with ...

Mars Express orbiter has provided invaluable insights into this area, revealing how these geological features came to be and ...

Mars once had rivers, lakes, and possibly vast oceans—conditions far different from the dry, barren planet we know today.

In early July, the Red Planet rises around 10:30 p.m. local daylight time and climbs highest around 3 a.m. It shines brilliantly at magnitude –2.2. But Mars doesn’t stand pat.

The Red Planet Mars got its iconic colour from a combination of rusting and erosion over its 4.6-billion-year history. Mars was a once wetter place than the dry, barren world we know today.

The only problem is that Martians are already there, and when humans land on the red planet in the then-distant year of 1999, it doesn’t take long for the Martians to hunt them down.

In my August article, “The Red Planet’s colorful past,” I cover man’s research of Mars and its use in popular culture from ancient times up to the first spacecraft mission to the planet in ...

And in 2012, Steltzner's last big project, the Curiosity rover, landed on the Red Planet. It's still exploring Mars today.

Red planet has a big core, complex crust Seismograph on NASA's InSight lander is slowly imaging the Martian interior. John Timmer – Jul 25, 2021 6:00 AM | 173 ...

October 2020 is all about the glory of Mars as the glimmering red planet puts on a show in the night sky. We passed Mars' close approach to Earth on Oct. 6 and now we can look forward to Mars ...