Mars gets its red color from oxidized iron dust, and the oldest myth mistake remains the same: Mars is Roman, while Ares is ...

PASADENA, California (AP) - NASA unveiled a breathtaking color snapshot Tuesday of the surface of Mars shot by its Spirit rover using a camera with the robotic equivalent of 20/20 vision.

What can Mars’ red hue that’s been observed for thousands of years teach us about when water existed on its surface potentially millions, or even billions, of years ago? This is what a recent study ...

A stunning new true-color mosaic of Mars is transforming how scientists—and the public—see the Red Planet. For decades, Mars has been portrayed in exaggerated reds and browns, often adjusted for ...

NASA released a new video Monday from last week’s historic landing of the rover Perseverance on Mars. “These are the stuff of our dreams. It’s what we’ve been dreaming about,” Al Chen, Perseverance ...

Water ice on Mars, bubbling gas on a distant star, a snow-covered island, and a pre-planetary nebula are featured this week. Plus, a look back at an image of Mars taken by the Dawn spacecraft during a ...

NASA says its Perseverance rover on Mars has transmitted new imagery that forms one of the sharpest panoramas of the Martian surface to date, offering scientists valuable insight into the Red Planet’s ...

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. In a ...

For decades, we have been imaging the surface of Mars with ever-finer resolution, cataloging a huge range of features on its surface, studying their composition, and, in a few cases, dispatching ...