Using computer models, students Mohammad Afzal Shadab and Eric Hiatt estimated how long it would have taken water to seep ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached a scientifically thrilling region on Mars called Krokodillen, where some of the ...

For decades, scientists believed that Mars’s famous red hue came mainly from hematite, a dry iron oxide mineral. However, a ...

MRO has been operating at the Red Planet even longer than Curiosity, reaching Mars orbit in March 2006. As the new photo shows, MRO is still going strong, hunting for signs of past water activity ...

First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously ...

We all know Mars is called “The Red Planet,” but have you ever stopped to wonder—why is it red? The classic joke explanation has been, “It’s rusty.” While that’s not entirely wrong, the truth is far ...

The first thing most people think of when they consider Mars is its deep red color. The Romans associated the planet with their god of war because it reminded them of blood while the ...

Mars, known as the red planet, might have gotten its hue from a different mineral than scientists once thought. ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team - MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA ...

"Mars is still the Red Planet. It’s just that our understanding of why Mars is red has been transformed." Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as ...

Mars is easily identifiable in the night sky by its prominent red hue. Thanks to the fleet of spacecraft that have studied the planet over the last decades, we know that this red color is due to ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars ... future trips to the red planet. To highlight the importance ...