From its peculiar reddish colour, to whether life ever existed on Mars, NASA has unlocked several secrets of the red planet over the decades. Check out these 7 stunning NASA images of Mars that reveal ...

The Red Planet beckons us toward it, and the day draws closer when humans will walk on its dusty surface, and the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos, may be our gateway to that future.

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators of whether Mars was habitable in the distant past.

By imaging the dunes, scientists can figure out how much CO2 frost forms on the dunes during the Martian winter. When temperatures grow warmer in the spring, the frost sublimates, transitioning from a ...

DEADLY space radiation and rapid outbreaks of disease are just a few of the official Nasa dangers that visitors to Mars will face. The space agency holds a list of “five hazards of human ...

On January 16 Mars shone at its brightest until 2027 as it was in opposition, which means it was positioned directly opposite the Sun as seen from Earth. This alignment made Mars appear at its ...

Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos. Phobos is gradually spiralling inward towards Mars and is expected to crash into the planet within 40 million years, potentially forming a ring system ...

Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

"When people find out about that they're going to say 'who put that there?'," Buzz Aldrin once said of the monolith.