On May 2, as sunlight crept over the Martian horizon, the Odyssey spacecraft captured Arsia Mons, a towering, long-extinct volcano, puncturing a glowing band of greenish haze in the planet’s upper ...

Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth's tallest volcanoes, and its two neighboring volcanoes are often surrounded by water ice ...

A new image from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter reveals an extraordinary sight: a massive formation breaking through Mars’ early ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has observed atmospheric sputtering on Mars for the first time, confirming how solar wind stripped the Red Planet’s thick atmosphere and transformed its climate.

“Organisms can no more be earthly on Mars than they could be aerial at the bottom of the sea,” Flammarion writes. Later in the same novel, Spero’s soul visits Flammarion on Earth. He reveals that ...

Mars, the other world, followed a different path. Today the Martian surface is hostile to life as we know it, but as this scientific story goes, Mars may have once hosted a rich abundance of microbes.

EVEN though humans have never set foot on Mars, we've still got plenty of photos of the red planet. And if you went by those pics alone, you'd think the Martian surface was littered with ...

Musk also aims to send an unmanned fleet to Mars in 2026, a crucial step in attaining his decades-long goal of putting humans on the Red Planet. Meanwhile, the payoff of his intense involvement in ...

Rather, it was a manmade explorer. On May 10, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its 1,500th sol, or Martian day, to take a selfie from the edge of the Jezero Crater called “Witch Hazel Hill ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The latest selfie by NASA’s Perseverance rover at Mars has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil. Resembling a small pale puff, the twirling dust devil ...

Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with the China National ...