A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

Earth and Mars are mysteriously low in elements like copper and zinc, which are crucial for planetary chemistry and ...

Curiosity’s Latest Discovery Working with the NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover team, Ben Tutolo, Ph.D., an associate professor with the Department of Earth, Energy and Environment in the ...

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run NASA will tell US senators the agency’s priority will be to send US astronauts to ...

Researchers may have found clues of possible ancient life beneath Mars' surface thanks to the Perseverance rover.

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed on the Red Planet.

Their findings indicate that Mars' atmospheric dynamics and radiative ... the speed of near-surface winds, which is the opposite of how Earth's CO₂-warming response works. These stronger surface ...

Mars orbits at an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million km) from the sun. Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it ...

It's a special image because, as well as the rare celestial alignment necessary for it to occur, it happened just a few days before Mars reached opposition. Opposition is when Earth is positioned ...