The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance ... roughly 93 million miles), but it also has to do with the planet’s atmosphere. A great example of the effects can ...

Pollux and Castor and the brilliant planet Mars. Since Mars is the brightest of the three points, I suggest we call it "The Mars Triangle." The brilliant yellow-orange light of Mars (magnitude ...

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.

“The presence of these deposits requires that a good swath of the planet, at least ... among scientists and cartographers due to Mars’s geography, which suggests a large northern ocean ...

If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...

Despite the fact that scientists have now sent more spacecraft to Mars than any other extraterrestrial planet, the world contains much more to learn—even regarding its most iconic feature.