On February 3, 2021, a rock from space slammed into Mars, carving a 21-meter-wide crater and sending seismic waves rippling across the planet. These waves traveled exactly 1,640 kilometers before ...

The previous opposition was on January 16, and as Mars recedes from Earth, March provides another good chance to see the Red Planet at its best. Anyone with an unobstructed view of the night sky ...

Watch them dance around the planet over several nights of viewing. Mars comes next, and it is also high in the sky at sunset. Its ruddy-red look hovers with the stars of Pollux and Castor in the ...

Ancient Mars had sun-soaked vacation-style beaches, according to a new study published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. And while the red planet may have been the hottest ...

Bell (Cornell University), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute, Boulder)/Unsplash NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 55 million miles away If ...

For years, spacecraft have been studying Mars, revealing ancient signs of lakes and rivers that suggest the planet once had liquid water. New research is now shedding light on why Mars is covered ...

A rare celestial event featuring seven planets—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter ... Captured by the Curiosity Rover, exploring the Red Planet, it used its Mastcam to record a 16-minute video ...

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off-center to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly ...

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen ...

Mars has long been known as the Red Planet, with its fiery hue making it easily recognisable in the night sky. But what if scientists have been wrong about the reason why Mars is red? In a ...