You can almost feel the warm, moist air and the alluring scent of the tropics when you enter Nisa Mars’s new exhibition, ...

The founders of Emporia, Nebraska in Holt County had great hopes for this platted town to become the scene of commerce.

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An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover made history by landing on the surface of Mars, embarking on a mission to explore the Red Planet in ...

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A 1976 picture from the Viking lander, the very first spacecraft to land on Mars, shows the Martian ground covered with a layer of rusty orange dust. Not all of Mars’ surface has the same color.

A bit after sunrise on June 6, 2025, NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter saw one of Mars' biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, as it broke through the clouds.

Mars is often associated with its iconic red hue, a color that evokes visions of a harsh and uninhabitable desert landscape.

Observing Mars with probes If you look closely at pictures of Mars taken by rovers on its surface, you can see that most of the planet isn’t purely red, but more of a rusty brown or tan color.