A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth’s. Mars rotates on its ...

‘Small’ asteroids the size of buses or stadiums have been pinpointed between Mars and Jupiter for the first time. Scientists used a new method of tracking the space rocks, which could one day ...

Mars orbits at an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million km) from the sun. Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it ...

The samples were collected by the 'Sample Analysis at Mars' (SAM) – one of the instruments on-board NASA's Curiosity Rover which has been studying the Gale crater since 2012. It has a gas ...

The finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests prebiotic chemistry may have advanced further on Mars than previously observed. Scientists probed an ...

Organic molecules of unprecedented size discovered on Mars. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 13, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250324152436.htm ...