NASA's Mariner 4 captured the first-ever close-up image of Mars on July 14, 1965. While waiting for the data to be processed ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

The whopping 25-kilogram Martian rock will be sold at a special natural history-themed auction at Sotheby's in New York this ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. As ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds on Mars suggests that the Red Planet may once have been ...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese geologists has created a Mars soil simulant that almost replicates Utopia Planitia soil, a ...