A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

The water-rich iron mineral ferrihydrite may be the main culprit behind Mars's reddish dust, rather than the dry, rust-like ...

Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...

With new data coming in from Mars, scientists have a new theory about why the planet is red. What does this mean for whether ...

European space researchers have discovered a bizarre phenomenon on Mars: thousands of dark formations resembling giant ...

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

Kaolinite is a soft, earthy, usually white, mineral produced by the chemical weathering of aluminium silicate minerals like ...

Lake Salda is more than a beautiful hidden gem, scientists believe this extraordinary body of water shares qualities with ...

Better to safeguard our existing animals and the Earth than resurrect extinct species or flee to another planet.

Explorer Scouts here in Burnley will now be able to earn a Space Activity Badge for the first time in the section’s history.