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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...