"If the moon and a planet are near Castor and Pollux you have an impressive show." From our earthly perspective, the moon and Mars will appear closest to each other at around 8 p.

Mars may have once been a paradise with Earth-like oceans and balmy beaches that would have been ideal for harboring living ...

The rover landed in Utopia Planitia, a plain within the largest known impact basin on Mars, near a series of ridges in the ...

The Red Planet’s iconic rusty dust has a much wetter history than previously assumed, find scientists combining European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA spacecraft data with new laboratory experiments on ...

If you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could be visible, but not all can be seen by the naked eye.

Data from Zhurong provide an unprecedented look into rocks buried near a proposed shoreline billions of years old. The researchers claim to have found beach deposits from an ancient Martian ocean.

Tohoku University researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in the soil.

(CNN) — Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago, according to new research. China’s Zhurong rover and its ground-penetrating radar ...