A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is likely what gives the planet its reddish hue.

Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...

Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

How's the weather up there? On Mars, weather forecasts haven't always been right at our fingertips. Now, recent research from ...

Water once existed in abundance of at the surface of Mars. How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still unclear, according to a new analysis.

Ingenuity proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a helicopter can operate on another planet. Over 72 flights, the little ...

For the fourth year in a row, iridescent clouds of frozen CO2 are lighting the Martian sky. The clouds appear in the same place, at the same time of year.

NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently exploring the rugged, red terrain of Mars, has sent back a striking image of the planet’s rocky landscape, igniting excitement and curiosity among space enthusiasts ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...