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

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 ...

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

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists have a new theory on why Mars is red, and it may mean that water was more widespread on the planet than previously ...

Elon Musk has insisted it is essentially a matter of life and death that we find somewhere off Earth to colonize.

"We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand—a proper, vacation-style beach," said geologist Benjamin Cardenas.