Get ready to explore the Red Planet — our dusty, windswept neighbor that's captured human imagination for centuries. Mars is ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Is Mars really as red as people say it is ...

The company has laid out a vision for robotic and crewed Mars missions aboard its Starship and Super Heavy rockets. Musk has said SpaceX’s craft could ferry a million colonists to the Red Planet ...

Here are some of our favorite objects on Mars that look like they don't belong on a dead and dusty planet. Many of these are a result of pareidolia — the tendency for humans to seek familiar ...

Facts about Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the sun in our solar system and is called the Red Planet because its abundant iron minerals oxidize, or rust, and make it appear red.

Mars is known as the "Red" Planet, but what actually makes it red? New research offers answers.

Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our solar system since the early 1990s. But only for Mars and Earth can scientists study rocks which allow them to understand the planet's ...

For years, scientists speculated about how the rocky planets—Earth, Mars, Venus, and the mysterious long-lost world, Theia—formed and evolved in relation to one another.

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.

Previous research did not detect water in the planet’s iron oxides, leading researchers to believe that the red dust formed in dry conditions, therefore it was likely due to hematite. “Mars is ...