On the eve of the 249th anniversary of American independence, NASA on Tuesday showcased a patriotic image of Old Glory as ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

Observing Mars With Probes If you look closely at pictures of Mars taken by rovers on its surface, you can see that most of the planet isn't purely red, but more of a rusty brown or tan color. You ...

The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet's climate to support life as we know it — has long belonged to the realm of science fiction. But a new study argues that it's time to ...

New research suggests ancient Red Planet precipitation was a lot like Earth It's hard to figure out if Mars was “warm and wet” in its ancient past, but climate models give us clues ...

First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously ...

We’ve always known Mars as the Red Planet — but it turns out, we may have had the reason why wrong. If so, it could revise much of what we know about the history of our smaller neighbor planet ...

But that's not all. It's the red color of the present-day Martian dust that hints to the planet not only being able to support water, but also that it could have been habitable. That's because the ...

A new study in the journal Nature Communications reveals that Mars is red for very much the same reason it may have once been home to life — namely, that it was a wet planet.

Mars’ red color may be related to a habitable past: study The Red Planet may have had an abundance of water billions of years ago By Brie Stimson Fox News Published February 28, 2025 7:55pm EST ...