NASA and China's national space agency plan to send crewed missions to Mars in the coming decades. Per NASA's Moon to Mars ...

For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too ...

A person standing on the largest volcano in the solar system would never know it. Olympus Mons rises 70,000 feet over Mars on ...

Mars may have once had an ocean so vast that it covered one-third of the planet before evaporating billions of years ago and leaving behind a telltale sign: a flat band of land, outlining the former ...

New research published in the journal Science reveals the red planet's mantle preserves a record of its violent beginnings. The inside of Mars isn't smooth and uniform like familiar textbook ...

Scientists analysing Martian meteorite NWA 8171 have uncovered the first known garnet‑bearing rock from Mars, a discovery that could reshape theories about the planet's ancient geology.

Mars is a very dry planet with very little water in its atmosphere and hardly any clouds, so you might not expect it to have storms. Yet, there is lightning and thunder on Mars – although not with ...