A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is likely what gives the planet its reddish hue.

Mars has fascinated people for centuries, not only because it is our closest neighbor in space but also because of its ...

If you have an otherworldly knack for picking the winners of college basketball games, you could get a free ride to Mars on SpaceX's Starship megarocket.

Elon Musk announced that the Starship rocket will go to Mars at the end of next year. If the mission is successful, the first ...

With new data coming in from Mars, scientists have a new theory about why the planet is red. What does this mean for whether ...

You may recall marveling at the Red Planet Mars when I wrote about it earlier this year. It reached its closest to Earth in mid-January when it lay only ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European ...