One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

Despite being known as the Red Planet, Mars shows off its swirling yellows, oranges and browns in a new satellite photo from ...

Mars may be more like Earth than previously thought, despite having a thinner atmosphere and a dry, dusty surface.

Mars orbits at an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million km) from the sun. Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it ...

What do the clouds on Jupiter, dust storms on Mars and rainstorms on Titan all have in common? They look like they belong on ...

Robin George Andrews reported on the moons of Mars in a special Science Times issue devoted to the Red Planet in 2020. Nov. 22, 2024 Something’s not quite right about the moons of Mars.

Mars’ moons could be the remains of an ill-starred asteroid that got too close to the Red Planet. A shredded asteroid origin could help explain mysterious features of the small, odd-shaped moons ...

ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured the newly released photos on December 13, 2023. The satellite has been circling the Red ...

Mars geology Mars is an intriguing planet from a geological and atmospheric perspective. It formed with the rest of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.Around 3.8 billion years ago, the ...

Mars (yes, the planet) ... Ph.D. usually studies the Lower Colorado River Basin, solidly on Earth. But a few years ago, she grew fascinated by satellite images of the red planet.

Musk insists there is, and his idea to “nuke Mars” would mean initiating nuclear explosions above the planet to serve as an “artificial sun” and heat the planet, melting the ice.

IT is not necessary to have an enormous telescope in order to see the outer satellite of Mars. I had a very satisfactory view of it on September 15 at 9h. 20m. with a nine-inch reflector, and only ...