Mars’ largest canyon system is not the geological relic scientists once suspected. A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that ancient faults beneath Valles Marineris are still capable ...

Researchers said the red planet is still tectonically active today. A team found the epicenter of a marsquake at the Grand ...

Currently, about 16,000 satellites are orbiting Earth, providing everything from GPS service and weather reports to phone ...

Phobos, it seems, is not long for this universe - at least on the large cosmic timescale. Astronomers have long known that ...

Is the camera tricking us, then? Mostly not. Lemmon traces the blue to the ground itself. Rocks scoured clean of dust and ...

Mars is by far the most Earth-like planet in the solar system… but that's not saying much. We know that Mars once hosted oceans, rivers, lakes, streams. It had a thick, carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere.

Mars is red … but why? Mars has a distinctive reddish hue when seen in the night sky. And indeed, rovers and landers on the surface also see a vast reddish-brown landscape. Scientists had determined ...

Earth-based experiments on iron-sulfur alloys thought to comprise the core of Mars reveal details about the planet’s seismic properties for the first time. This information will be compared to ...

When you think of a sunset, you probably imagine a sky dyed in orange or red. However, if you were to stand on Mars and watch ...