NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

"Mars is still the Red Planet. It’s just that our understanding of why Mars is red has been transformed." Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as ...

Nicknamed the 'Red Planet' for its iconic rusty hue, the question is what exactly gives the planet its colour? Scientists have learned from space orbiters and landers that the rust-coloured dust ...

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen ...

The color red and the planet Mars go together like Earth and its oceans or Saturn and its rings. However, our understanding of how the Red Planet got its signature hue might be wrong. A new ...

We’ve always known Mars as the Red Planet — but it turns out, we may have had the reason why wrong. If so, it could revise much of what we know about the history of our smaller neighbor planet.

The fourth planet from the Sun is famously a rusty red—but scientists now believe we’ve been wrong about how it got its distinct hue. The red coloration comes from iron minerals in Mars ...

You may recall marveling at the Red Planet Mars when I wrote about it earlier this year. It reached its closest to Earth in mid-January when it lay only ...

Mars has long been known as the Red Planet, with its fiery hue making it easily recognisable in the night sky. But what if scientists have been wrong about the reason why Mars is red? In a ...

A new study suggests the iron oxide responsible for the red planet’s distinctive hue is ferrihydrite, pointing to the bygone presence of water, an important ingredient for life Margherita Bassi ...

One of the biggest reasons is the planet's reddish hue, earning the fourth rock from the sun one its most popular nicknames -- the "Red Planet." But what exactly gives the planet its iconic color?

"Mars is still the red planet. It's just that our understanding of why Mars is red has been transformed. The major implication is that because ferrihydrite could only have formed when water was ...