For years, scientists believed that Mars was a dry and barren world. However, recent research has revealed something ...

The images and data being collected are already raising new questions about how the Martian surface was changing billions of ...

On the eve of the 249th anniversary of American independence, NASA on Tuesday showcased a patriotic image of Old Glory as ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

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

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 Red Planet has extremely cold temperatures, is baked in radiation and lacks a thick, protective atmosphere like Earth's, making it an extremely hostile environment for life.

NASA . When it reached Mars on Nov. 13, 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, just edging out its Soviet competitor, Mars 2.

The only problem is that Martians are already there, and when humans land on the red planet in the then-distant year of 1999, it doesn’t take long for the Martians to hunt them down.

In the absence of evidence of life, a not-so-new idea is gaining ground; if we can’t find life on Mars, maybe we could bring life to Mars. Not only that, but maybe we could change the nature of ...

Much of our popular literature and films about Mars, such as “War of the Worlds,” “Invaders from Mars,” and “Mars Attacks!,” has supposed that there is life on the red planet – but ...