From its perch in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high mountain, you can see over an expanse of plains, called Aeolis Palus, ...

March 1: Mars will reach its highest point in the sky during the early evening. March 9: The red planet will be positioned 56 arcminutes south of the waxing moon. The best time to view it will be ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested on a Wednesday episode of Senator Ted Cruz 's podcast that while humans may not find living ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

Mars in March 2025 offers sky enthusiasts prime viewing opportunities, with key dates including March 1, March 9, mid-March, and March 31. Observers can expect optimal conditions for spotting the ...

This past November, declassified CIA documents from 1984 described someone seeing a dying "elder race" on Mars. The report was part of what the U.S. Army, ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

A 7-planet alignment will be visible in Michigan skies on Friday. Here's what to know and how to see the planetary alignment.

Mars has shone red in the night sky for as long as humans have gazed up at the cosmos, fascinating people from the ancient Romans to the present day. "The fundamental question of why Mars is red ...

In this rare event, a full moon, also dubbed the "Worm Moon," will coincide with a lunar eclipse — causing a total lunar ...

I come correct with good news and glad tidings, my dudes. Mars — our planet of will, energy, sexuality, and action, getting it done and getting it on — is at long last going direct.

With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the potential source of that distinctive coloring, overturning a popular theory in the process.