SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, is gearing up for one of its most daring missions yet: sending its Starship rocket to Mars as early ...

A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

The Red Planet Mars got its iconic colour from a combination ... dust that were based on spacecraft observations alone did not find any evidence of water within it. This led researchers to ...

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

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

Did Mars' water escape underground ... amounts of water stored beneath the Martian surface suggests the Red Planet may not be hiding liquid water beneath its crust after all.

Previous research did not detect water in the planet’s iron oxides, leading researchers to believe that the red dust formed in dry conditions, therefore it was likely due to hematite.

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

"Mars is still the Red Planet. It’s just that our understanding ... a process still shaping the Martian landscape today. However, not all iron oxides are the same, so experts have long debated ...

We’re not the first to consider ferrihydrite as the reason for why Mars is red ... it created the planet’s iconic red appearance." ...

Mars has shone red in the night sky for as long as ... so must have formed early on ancient Mars when the planet was still wet. "We are not the first to consider ferrihydrite as the reason for ...

Previous observations did not find evidence of water contained within the element. open image in gallery Mars turned red, with rusty dust blowing across the planet for billions of years.