European space researchers have discovered a bizarre phenomenon on Mars: thousands of dark formations resembling giant ...

Mars is easily identifiable in the night sky by its prominent red hue. Thanks to the fleet of spacecraft that have studied the planet over the last decades, we know that this red color is due to ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...

Kaolinite is a soft, earthy, usually white, mineral produced by the chemical weathering of aluminium silicate minerals like ...

The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) is Germany's most important contribution to the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express mission. The main objective of this mission, which reached Mars in ...

Therefore, HRSC acquires images that typically comprise between 30,000 and 60,000 lines. Upgrading the HRSC for use on the Mars Express mission also included the installation of a second lens, ...

the TGO and Mars Express project scientist, said in the statement. What they found was that the best match for Mars' red dust is a combination of basaltic volcanic rock and a water-rich iron oxide ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Mars has captivated scientists and the public alike for centuries. One of the biggest reasons is the planet’s reddish hue, earning the third rock from the ...