China’s Mars mission revealed strange discoveries on the red planet that continue raising disturbing questions among ...

NASA’s Spirit rover did not uncover a new water deposit on Mars. Instead, a new analysis of two-decade-old measurements has ...

Mars receives solar energy based on the sunlight hitting its cross-sectional area. The radius of Mars is approximately 3,390 km. 36 trillion square meters of cross section. The average solar flux at ...

Mars trembles with marsquakes, but not all of them are driven by phenomena that occur beneath the surface—many are the aftermath of meteorite strikes. Meteorites crash down to Mars every day. After ...

When a rover is exploring the surface of Mars, it doesn’t send data straight back to Earth. That’s for two reasons: Firstly, it would require a large, powerful antenna which would be cumbersome and ...

Landers and rovers on Mars gather data that help scientists answer fundamental questions about the geology, atmosphere, surface environment, history of water and potential for life on the Red Planet.

NASA is at the precipice of a new era of Mars exploration that will hopefully expand to a ubiquitous presence at the Red ...

Mars has long served as inspiration to many a science fiction writer in search of a home planet for their imagined extraterrestrials. But could the terrestrial red planet ever have actually been home ...

For those who believe data is life, here's a chance to use data to potentially discover life on another planet. NASA is seeking novel solutions to analyze spectrometry data from Mars samples that ...