Purple is only the latest entry in Mars’s surprisingly broad color chart.

A newly released image of Mars is giving us an unprecedented, richly detailed view of the planet. Captured by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, which has been surveying the Red ...

Indian scientists have mapped dramatic temperature swings on Mars using Hope spacecraft data, revealing wave-like patterns ...

Images captured by the roaming Curiosity Rover showed the unexpected features on the Red Planet's surface ...

Three years ago, Martian dust shrouded the solar panels on NASA’s InSight lander, preventing further operations and leading to its retirement. But the mission’s data continues to reveal information ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover mission unintentionally created five impact craters on Mars, giving scientists a rare opportunity ...

Mars is cold, parched, and extremely dusty. Powerful gusts of wind kick up literal tons of reddish dust that often takes the form of whorls known as dust devils. These winds also shroud the planet in ...

To illustrate, NASA's Viking 1 sci-fi-style image of a rock structure on Mars, first taken in 1976, made people believe that it is a gigantic human face. Later, high-quality pictures showed that it ...

Whenever humans arrive on Mars, they're going to find it a difficult place to exist. Mars is cold, with an average surface temperature of -55°C; temperatures can plunge to -125°C with dust storms ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researching other planets requires a lot of earthbound travel, taking Ali Bramson, an associate professor in Purdue University’s College of Science, from snowy slopes in Iceland ...