Mars has fascinated people throughout history, and today, it is one of the most explored places in the solar system, with many rovers and orbiters searching the planet for evidence of past or ...

Like much of Mars, the butterscotch plain is inhospitable ... for designing and building the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), the instrument on board Odyssey that generates pictures ...

Did you know that Mars has blue sunsets, and that airlines often require its pilot and copilot to eat different meals? Learn more of our fun facts of the day! The thin Martian atmosphere ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...

Mars has been born afresh in the human mind with ... the researchers noticed images of Valles Marineris (a great canyon system that would span the continental United States) which show that ...

Jupiter has the most moons in our solar system, 95 of which we know. Mars has the tallest volcano in the solar system, ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we ... A stunning photo of a "parade of planets", shows Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, and Mercury in alignment from Earth.

Martian dust storms can potentially cause respiratory issues and elevated risk of disease, making them yet another health hazard space agencies need to prepare for, according to new research by the ...