Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

The new work suggests that the edge of the dichotomy was eroded back by hundreds of kilometers during the time when an ocean might have occupied Mars' northern hemisphere. To view the Martian ...

Mars is known as the 'Red Planet.' Learn about its reddish hue, caused by iron oxide, its position as the fourth planet from ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have found evidence of vast underground reservoirs of liquid water on Mars, hidden deep beneath the planet’s surface. This revelation comes from seismic data ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...

Unlike the dunes on Earth which are constantly in motion, the kidney bean-shaped dunes on Mars appear surprisingly motionless ...

It was a routine flight for the rotorcraft, which had proved that powered, controlled flight was possible on another planet, ...

Learn about Mars at opposition in January 2025, when the Red Planet is closest to Earth. Discover how to view it, key dates, ...