A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover recently captured a stunning image of a black-and-white striped rock on Mars, sparking excitement ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

A project at the University of Tokyo has now applied a photothermal optical spectroscopy technique to the task, investigating whether it could detect evidence of living microbes while satisfying these ...

The redness of Mars has made the planet one of the most recognizable in the solar system with its hue serving as a topic of ...

Research published late last year indicated “seismic discontinuities in the Martian crust” that scientists believe could be ...

He said the most important factor in these movies is showing the fragility of humankind on earth. “The [movie] Martian brings ...

California native Andy Weir was working as a software engineer in the tech industry before his writing career took off. Weir went from an ordinary guy to one of the most successfu ...

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

The discovery of pale, loose rocks on the Martian surface could suggest that Mars was once a much warmer world.