NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a ...

Curiosity has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2011, but what it found inside a rock last year has changed our ...

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Mars Express orbiter captures a slightly elliptical crater measuring roughly 12 miles (20 kilometres) east to wes ...

NASA is sending two spacecraft to Mars on their new ESCAPADE mission to reveal how space weather robbed it of its atmosphere and turned it dry ...

What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study ...

A new study may have revealed the true source behind how the Red Planet got its hue. It’s been long thought that Mars shines red due to the rusted iron minerals within the dust that covers the planet ...

President Donald Trump’s single reference to space in his second inaugural address Monday pointed in an unexpected direction. In his prepared remarks, Trump, a longtime backer of U.S.-led space ...

Robert Zubrin, likely the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, and then remaking it in the Earth’s image, predicts SpaceX’s colossal Starship will be the first spacecraft ever to ...

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We're now just past the midpoint of astronomical winter — that moment marking the midway point between December's winter solstice and March's vernal equinox. That moment took place at 4:11 p.m.