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

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

This in turn suggests that the ferrihydrite “formed during a cold, wet period on early Mars under ... at the Martian surface. “The Mars rover and orbiter data is fully available to the public ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

The continent’s imminent attempt at a commercial orbital launch could be the start of a bold new era that ends Europe’s ...

Utopia Planitia dates to the Hesperian Period, or 3.7 billion ... “The Mariner 9 orbiter first imaged giant canyons on Hesperian surfaces of Mars in the 1970s, but they are generally viewed ...