"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure ...

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

Close-up images of The Red Planet’s ridges from Mars Rover show ‘dramatic evidence’ of water - The new images taken by NASA’s ...

Right now, we need to continue to study Mars. Lanza advocates for the Mars Sample Return mission, a NASA-European Space Agency campaign to bring home material collected on the Red Planet by the ...

Arguably the most significant development on Mars this year was the revelation that a massive reservoir, containing enough water to cover the Red Planet with a 1-mile-deep (1.6 kilometers) ocean ...

It’s been long thought that Mars shines red due to the rusted iron minerals within the dust that covers the planet. AP. The research combined spacecraft data from the European Space Agency (ESA ...

Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, is a dry, rocky world. Its famous red color has earned it the nickname the Red Planet. Mars has fascinated people throughout history, and today, it is one of ...

Musk has said SpaceX’s craft could ferry a million colonists to the Red Planet by 2050, and the company announced in November it planned to launch the first uncrewed Starship Mars missions in ...

The Red Planet Mars got its iconic colour from a combination of rusting and erosion over its 4.6-billion-year history. Mars was a once wetter place than the dry, barren world we know today.

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.