The idea of an ancient Martian ocean has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, groundbreaking research based on radar scans ...

Mars has fascinated people for centuries, not only because it is our closest neighbor in space but also because of its ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

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

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

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.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...