Aside from Earth, no planet in the solar system captures our imagination quite like Mars. The Red Planet is one of the few ...

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

Colonising the red planet en route to creating “a spacefaring civilisation” has long been one of Musk’s driving ambitions — ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

In his prepared remarks, Trump, a longtime backer of U.S.-led space exploration and exploitation, singled out Mars and left ...

"Rootless cones form when lava flows over wet or icy ground, causing it to boil and explode," said Dundas. "The region around ...

These two planets are visible in the southwest sky.Mars is currently at opposition from the Sun. That means the Sun and the ...

The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.

Humans on Mars has long been the ultimate goal of Musk's SpaceX ... an essential part of getting a crew and all of its supplies on the long journey to the red planet. "It is thanks to you, that the ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic ...