Researchers used a novel technique to figure out what's going on inside the Red Planet. The work suggests that the interior of the southern hemisphere is hundreds of degrees hotter than that of the no ...

We may have been wrong about how Mars got its characteristic red hue, a new study reveals. The Red Planet owes its ruddy complexion to rusted iron minerals, dispersed across billions of years by winds ...

Clocks do not work the same across the universe and run slower or faster depending on gravity and its strength. Based on the influence of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, experts ...

Mars has bright polar ice caps, which you can see even in small telescopes. You can watch them grow and shrink with the seasons. Unlike on Earth, they consist mostly of frozen carbon dioxide. On ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and electrons that flows from the sun's outermost atmosphere (corona), traveling at ...

Humans have been exploring Mars since NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on the red planet on July 20, 1976. Since that time, technology has improved drastically, enabling landers to do all sorts of ...