placing Mars at its closest to Earth. The result is a dazzling display as Mars appears larger, brighter, and more prominent than usual. Its rusty-red glow and distinctive features will be on full ...

On Sunday (Jan. 12), the Red Planet will make its close approach of Earth at 8:32 a.m. EST (13:32 GMT). This event, known as perigee, causes Mars to appear bigger and brighter in the sky than ...

The image below, taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (which arrived at Mars in 2016), shows one of the ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Like Earth and Venus, Mars has mountains ... orbits Mars every 30 hours and is less than 10 miles across. Its larger sibling Phobos bears many scars, including craters and deep grooves running ...

Dichotomy of Hemispheres, The Red Planet has disparity between its northern and southern hemispheres. NASA’s Mars ...

If you are fortunate to live in the occultation zone and the weather cooperates, this upcoming event is one that really should not be missed.

NASA's MARVL project is developing a modular nuclear electric propulsion system for faster Mars travel. Robotic in-space assembly and advanced cooling tech could cut trip times in half.

That’s because at opposition, Mars is about as close to Earth as it will get during this ... Mars will also appear larger than at any other time this year. Astronomers use angles to measure ...

It's been a while now since American space agency NASA seriously started considering bringing pieces of planet Mars to Earth for study ... about a decade later than the most optimistic estimates.

Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover that collected the more-than two-dozen ... get them back to Earth. For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping ...