New analysis of NASA's Spirit rover data reveals evidence that water played a major role on the Red Planet.

Data from the Mars Express orbiter has been used to create a visualization of "a vast system of deep and steep valleys that ...

More than 20 years after NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars, a researcher from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has uncovered new ...

Mars receives solar energy based on the sunlight hitting its cross-sectional area. The radius of Mars is approximately 3,390 km. 36 trillion square meters of cross section. The average solar flux at ...

The solar wind may be stripping away Mars’ atmosphere by creating giant rolling waves along its outer edge. Data from MAVEN ...

NASA is at the precipice of a new era of Mars exploration that will hopefully expand to a ubiquitous presence at the Red ...

Mars trembles with marsquakes, but not all of them are driven by phenomena that occur beneath the surface—many are the aftermath of meteorite strikes. Meteorites crash down to Mars every day. After ...

When a rover is exploring the surface of Mars, it doesn’t send data straight back to Earth. That’s for two reasons: Firstly, it would require a large, powerful antenna which would be cumbersome and ...

Landers and rovers on Mars gather data that help scientists answer fundamental questions about the geology, atmosphere, surface environment, history of water and potential for life on the Red Planet.

Mars has long served as inspiration to many a science fiction writer in search of a home planet for their imagined extraterrestrials. But could the terrestrial red planet ever have actually been home ...