Mars has always captured human imagination with its striking red hues and mysterious landscapes. Recent images from NASA’s ...

On the Red Planet’s northern hemisphere, there are frozen sand dunes that look just like kidney beans-but you definitely ...

Go back a mere four billion years, and Mars could have been the perfect destination ... detected by the rover were ancient rivers or sand dunes. "Beaches simply fit the observations the best ...

Mars has shone red in the night sky for as long as humans have gazed up at the cosmos, fascinating people from the ancient Romans to the present day. "The fundamental question of why Mars is red ...

Frigid water helped paint Mars red and may have shaped a vast coastline ... don’t match the expected shape of windblown sand dunes, nor are they likely to be caused by rivers or lava flows ...

The last Martin Mars flying boat made its final flight last week, marking the end for a World War II-era seaplane so hulking it had rockets to assist with take-off. Initially developed as maritime ...

Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust ... "The structures don't look like sand dunes. They don't look like an impact crater. They don't look like lava flows. That's when we started ...

Researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in the soil. Their water storage capabilities may help us understand the change in water on Mars over time.

NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission promises to fill significant gaps in our understanding of the universe and propel humanity forward in a new phase of the space race. Exploring the cosmos ...

The color red and the planet Mars go together like Earth and its oceans or Saturn and its rings. However, our understanding of how the Red Planet got its signature hue might be wrong. A new ...

A study using radar data from China's now-dead Zhurong rover finds strong evidence that Mars had a stable ocean ... wind-blown sand dunes, or ancient rivers. Zhurong did not survive the Martian ...

Mars is easily identifiable in the night sky by its prominent red hue. Thanks to the fleet of spacecraft that have studied the planet over the last decades, we know that this red color is due to ...