As it flew by Mars, the spacecraft's onboard camera snapped 22 pictures of the planet's surface, sending them back home to ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

Get ready for a breathtaking journey through the skies of Mars with real aerial footage captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). This incredible spacecraft has been orbiting Mars for 15 ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient connection between the planet Mars and blood wasn’t completely wrong. Rust, ...

In the first three months of the Perseverance Rover’s mission on Mars, NASA has already made groundbreaking discoveries and ...

Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future ...

The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometres of ancient riverbeds on Mars suggests that the Red Planet may once have been ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

Observing Mars with probes If you look closely at pictures of Mars taken by rovers on its surface, you can see that most of the planet isn’t purely red, but more of a rusty brown or tan color.