Mars looks quiet today, but new research suggests the planet’s surface still carries the rhythm of a vanished companion.

Mars has long been cast as a frozen desert, a world of dust and stone that lost its water eons ago. Fresh evidence from a cluster of pale, “bleached” rocks now suggests that picture is far too bleak, ...

As we travel from Mars’s equator toward the planet’s northern regions, we arrive at Coloe Fossae. This landscape is characterized by long, shallow grooves that cut across an area filled with steep ...

It’s a virtual mission to Mars. Our first mission to Mars may still be a ways off, but people can take a virtual tour of the Red Planet thanks to a brand new video by the Mars Express Orbiter. People ...

Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6.

Scientists mapped ancient Martian rivers and drainage basins, revealing past water flows and habitable environments of Mars’s climate and geological history.

Mark your calendars - March is the perfect time to see Mars shine in all its glory! Getty There’s nothing more exhilarating than catching a glimpse of outer space, especially if you’re a fellow ...

Ancient Mars once teemed with flowing rivers, forming vast drainage systems. A new study has mapped these large basins, ...

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Learn more about volcanic activity on Mars and how it may have once provided vital elements to the atmosphere.

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