For one, Mars is on average about 50 percent farther from the sun than Earth is, with an average orbital distance of 142 million miles. This means that it takes Mars longer to complete a single ...

Mars got its name from the powerful Roman god of war. Its moons Phobos and Deimos are named after the two horses that pulled the chariot of Mars. Mars is the smallest planet in our solar system, with ...

"They're going to Mars, man." Equipped with yet more of Christensen's infrared mineralogy-at-a-distance spectrometers, the rovers will be able to spot the most interesting rocks for analysis in a ...

Named after the Roman God of war, Mars is also known as the ‘Red Planet’ because of its red colour as the planet is covered with soil, rock, and dust in which the presence of iron oxide gives the ...

Here are seven interesting things that you may not already know about NASA’s Mars Perseverance mission: NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance is all set to launch today — interesting facts you may ...