Mars

Mars, the Red Planet, is the fourth planet from the sun.

Related Topics: Curiosity Mars Rover Mission, ExoMars, India Mars Orbiter Mission, Mars Rover Opportunity, Maven Mars Mission 

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An image of the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) site on Devon Island.

A month on 'Mars': First journeys

By Rod Pyle published

The Month on Mars expedition begins its fieldwork listening to some of the earliest radio frequency signals in the universe.

robotic arm on mars above digging marks

Equatorial Mars is surprisingly dry, NASA's InSight lander finds

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA's InSight Mars lander has discovered little evidence of underground water at its site, but scientists are urging more research before drawing firm conclusions.

An aerial view of Jezero Crater on Mars

Probing the Red Planet: Finding past life at Jezero Crater

By Leonard David published

Perseverance Mars rover is gathering up samples of Martian rock and soil that could help tease out an answer concerning past life on Mars.

Members of the Month on Mars expedition stand next to a small propeller aircraft.

A month on 'Mars': Traveling to the Red Planet

By Rod Pyle published

The Month on Mars expedition traveled to the Haughton-Mars Project base for its summer field season at a simulated Martian outpost.

SpaceX's Starship SN24 rocket test-fires two Raptor engines at sunset in Boca Chica, Texas on Aug. 9, 2022.

Space photos: The most amazing images this week!

By Elizabeth Howell published

See the best photos on Space.com this week.

A small asteroid missed Earth by just a few thousand miles on March 25, 2022.

The top space stories of the week!

By Elizabeth Howell published

Astronomers go fishing for an interstellar magnet, SpaceX faces down space debris 'squalls', and North Korea's ICBM intentions are unclear.

This image of Perseverance’s backshell sitting upright on the surface of Jezero Crater was collected from an altitude of 26 feet (8 meters) by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 26th flight at Mars on April 19, 2022.

Perseverance Mars rover photographs its own landing debris

By Stefanie Waldek published

As the Mars rover traverses the planet, it's come across pieces of its entry, landing, and descent hardware.

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance collected its 12th Red Planet rock sample on Aug. 3, 2022.

Perseverance Mars rover bags 12th Red Planet rock sample

By Mike Wall published

NASA's car-sized Perseverance Mars rover drilled out and sealed up its 12th rock sample on Wednesday (Aug. 3), its fourth such operation in less than a month.

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins

A NASA astronaut in space just published a science paper on Mars rocks

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, who is currently in orbit, is lead author on a scientific paper. The topic is the Curiosity mission that reaches its 10th anniversary on Mars Aug. 5.

robot on dusty Martian rocks

The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 10 years. Here's what we've learned.

By Stefanie Waldek published

Curiosity landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, with one main goal: to determine whether the planet was once habitable. In 10 years, it has answered that question and many others.

A visualisation of the European ExoMars rover on the surface of the Red Planet.

Europe's troubled Mars rover still vital in the search for life on the Red Planet

By Tereza Pultarova published

Europe's unlucky first Martian rover ExoMars can still play a big role in answering the question whether there has ever been life on the Red Planet?

Martian panorama showing the view back down Mount Sharp at the center of the image and rounded hills in the distance.

Celebrate 10 years of NASA's Curiosity rover with these incredible images (gallery)

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 10 years, taking incredible photos as it goes. We take a look at some of its best images here.

Haughton Crater and the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) base.

A month on 'Mars': Preparing to visit the Red Planet ... on Earth

By Rod Pyle published

On Aug. 1, a group of eight researchers and their associates headed to the high Arctic to spend a month at the Haughton-Mars Project base on Devon Island.

The Perseverance Mars rover collected its 11th sample from a sedimentary rock, pictured here.

Perseverance Mars rover snags 11th rock sample

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover bagged its 11th sample on Mars, targeting a sedimentary rock that may preserve "biosignatures" of ancient life on the Red Planet.

The Virtual Telescope Project will livestream views of the Mars-Uranus conjunction on Aug. 1, 2022, at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT on Aug. 2).

Watch Mars and Uranus meet up in night-sky webcast tonight

By Mike Wall published

Mars and Uranus are night-sky neighbors at the moment, and you can get good views of their unusual meetup online tonight (Aug. 1).

Woman and child viewing night sky with a telescope.

The brightest planets in August's night sky: How to see them (and when)

By Joe Rao published

Reference Our viewing guide tells you which planets are visible in August's night sky and how you can see them.

Starry Night graphic showing the location of Mars and Uranus in the night sky.

Use Mars to spot elusive Uranus on Sunday

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Mars will begin to approach Uranus early Sunday morning (July 31). The pair will be close enough to share the same field of view as seen through binoculars.

A false-color image of a dune field inside Gamboa Crater on Mars.

Strange Mars dunes reveal where the wind blows on the Red Planet

By Tereza Pultarova published

NASA's veteran Mars orbiter captured a stunning image of a Martian dune field that reveals intricate details that might help scientists learn more about weather patterns in the planet's past.

Artist's conception of the vehicles that would participate in a Mars sample return by NASA and the European Space Agency.

Mars sample return mission adds 2 helicopters, scraps 'fetch' rover

By Elizabeth Howell published

The redesigned NASA-European campaign will task the Perseverance rover with delivering Red Planet samples to a rocket, with the drones as backup retrieval options.

NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars

Explosive volcanism on Mars deposited rare mineral in Curiosity rover's crater home

By Robert Lea published

A concentrated clump of a rare mineral was discovered in the Gale crater in 2016 by the Curiosity rover. Now, researchers may finally know how it got there.