NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars.

Colonizing Mars and terraforming it to be a comfortable future home for humanity is quite the challenge. How would we go about it and how close is close enough for our purposes? How would we let life ...

Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, captivates both scientists and dreamers with its rust coloured surface and tantalising ...

Satellite images of the Red Planet suggest scientists were wrong about these strange Martian features. First identified in the 1970s by NASA's Viking mission, long, dark markings snake down ...

Elisabeth M. Hausrath receives funding from NASA, including from the MSL Curiosity rover Participating Scientist Program and the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Mars, one of our closest planetary ...

It's hard enough to keep a videogame character alive on Earth. In games like Sons of the Forest or The Long Dark, avoiding danger and withstanding the elements is a difficult task to be overcome.

Visible for some five hours after sunset is Mars, making its way through Cancer. Shining at 1st magnitude, this ruddy point of light is easy to find in the western sky during May evenings ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, but scientists know relatively little about them — especially Deimos, the smallest of the two. Both moons are "blacker than coal ...