NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has set a new record for the longest distance traveled on the surface of another planet, the ...

Ancient rocks on Mars may hold the missing carbon dioxide that shaped the planet’s early climate, according to a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. Researchers found ...

Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...

A Japanese space mission is about to launch towards Mars. But it will not land on the planet itself. Instead, the Martian ...

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 ...

Click here for explanations of each section [A Celestial Body That Sparks Conversation] MarsMars is a topic that has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research into the interior of Mars further emphasizes that the Red Planet is a world of two very different halves. Deep inside ...

Like Earth, Mars has numerous volcanoes dotting its surface. As far as we know, those volcanoes are now extinct. And scientists have long thought the planet’s volcanic system overall was simpler than ...

Mars is cold, parched, and extremely dusty. Powerful gusts of wind kick up literal tons of reddish dust that often takes the form of whorls known as dust devils. These winds also shroud the planet in ...