Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records ...

Given these similarities, it’s reasonable to expect uranium on Mars. The Mars Odyssey spacecraft, equipped with a gamma-ray spectrometer, mapped the distribution of radioactive elements like thorium ...

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

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

To test whether the model is correct in its assumptions ... tubes at a depot on the Martian surface. The aim is for a mission called Mars Sample Return to head to Mars, collect the samples ...

Mars' atmosphere moves differently from Earth's due to gravity waves. These waves affect air circulation at high altitudes.

• Tiny atmospheric ripples called gravity waves, not large planetary waves, are the main drivers of Mars’s weather patterns, ...

Although just a test of Hera's three main instruments, the mission is hoped to shed a bit more light on the small satellite of the neighboring planet. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

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 ...