"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...

Despite being known as the Red Planet, Mars shows off its swirling yellows, oranges and browns in a new satellite photo from ...

It's been long thought that Mars shines red due to the rusted iron minerals within the dust that covers the planet -- but a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications suggests ...

Mars has two small, funky-looking moons with strange orbits, and they may suggest that the red planet once had rings, like some of the larger planets in our solar system. The two lumpy moons ...

Mars' atmosphere has been extensively analyzed by NASA's Curiosity rover which landed on the Red Planet in 2012. Scientists found that Mars' atmosphere at the surface consists of 95 percent carbon ...

Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025 (13:38 UTC): Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2022, at 59,703,891 miles (96,084,099 kilometers) while in the constellation Cancer.; Monday and Tuesday, Jan ...

NASA has sent a host of remotely-operated landers, orbiters and rovers to study Mars and bring back geologic samples. While no humans have set foot on the planet, that could change. NASA has ...

Mars (planet) Add Topic. First aurora photo from Mars shows green glow in the sky Mars doesn't have an organized planetary magnetic field like Earth, so auroras can appear anywhere in the sky.

Mars will disappear on January 13 as the moon moves in front of the Red Planet in our skies, in what is known as an "occultation." Stock image of Mars (main) and the moon (inset).

Curiosity Mars rover turns 10 04:00. NASA's Curiosity rover has captured the first close-up images of a part of Mars that scientists say provide evidence of how water once flowed on the red planet ...