One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

Mars is smaller than ... very different chemical composition to a moon that formed from chunks of early Mars. If the Phobos sample indicates that the moons formed from a collision with Mars, ...

In a rare event, NASA's Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft was forced to perform a previously unplanned manoeuvre this week to avoid a head on collision with red planet's lumpy, crater-filled moon Phobos.

NASA’s Odyssey orbiter captured stunning new infrared images of the bizarre Martian moon Phobos. Scientists have debated the origins of Phobos, and some believe it is either a chunk of Mars that ...

Mars is by far the most Earth-like planet in the solar system… but that's not saying much. We know that Mars once hosted oceans, rivers, lakes, streams. It had a thick, carbon-dioxide-rich ...

Elon Musk envisions humanity's future on Mars, driven by the need to safeguard civilization from Earth's existential threats. SpaceX's Starship and Starbase are pivotal in realizing this vision ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has captured a breathtaking image. The image shows Arsia Mons, a massive Martian volcano. The volcano is seen piercing through morning haze. Arsia Mons is twice the ...

Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, has a bold vision for sending Starship to Mars. Experts weigh in on what's realistic and what's overly optimistic.

The image, taken in October 2024 using the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter, shows a crumbling crater called Deuteronilus Cavus. It is ...