Mars, the enigmatic Red Planet, has long puzzled scientists with a dramatic geological contrast between its hemispheres, ...

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the solar system: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...

Life on Mars is a dream long held – and not just for David Bowie. The idea of settling on the Red Planet has been around for ...

The new work suggests that the edge of the dichotomy was eroded back by hundreds of kilometers during the time when an ocean ...

The signs of wave ripples in the sandy shores of ancient lake beds, created as wind pushed water back and forth have been found on Mars providing evidence that there were open bodies of water, not ...

Spiders on Mars is the name given to spindly crack-like features that appear on the Red Planet's surface during the Martian springtime when carbon dioxide ice sublimates — or turns directly into ...

The mystique of Mars has been studied for centuries. The fourth planet from the sun is reminiscent of a rich, red desert and features a rugged surface challenging to traverse. While several robotic ...

Fresh from the excitement of this week’s Wolf Moon, there’s another treat in store for sky-watchers this week, with Mars ...

Have you seen it? I’m talking about that super-bright and super-red “star” rising in the east in the early evening. That’s ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The samples may arrive sooner.

NASA recently released an overhead view of what appears to be massive kidney beans found on Mars' northern hemisphere. In ...