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 ...

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 ...

Coming less than two hours after ... called it the full hunger moon. Earth is catching up to Mars in the orbital race, which means the Red Planet is getting bigger and brighter.

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

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 ...

Mars' atmosphere is 100 times thinner than Earth's. Because Mars' atmosphere ... Now, you could make your parachute larger to slow down more. And that's partly what NASA does.

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.

This happens when Earth passes directly between Mars and ... it is significantly larger than when Mars is farther away. For context, during a perihelic opposition (the closest type), Mars can ...

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 ...