The Mars Express orbiter launched to the Red Planet. Twenty years later, ESA has delivered a high resolution color image of ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Is Mars really as red as people say it is? – ...

What can Mars’ red hue that’s been observed for thousands of years teach us about when water existed on its surface potentially millions, or even billions, of years ago? This is what a recent study ...

Mars is known as the Red Planet, but scientists are still learning about what gives the planet its distinctive color. New research shows why the planet's surface has its rusty hue, and the findings ...

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NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered a treasure trove of diverse and intriguing rocks while exploring an ancient river channel on Mars, providing scientists with new insights into the Red Planet's ...

We all know Mars is called “The Red Planet,” but have you ever stopped to wonder—why is it red? The classic joke explanation has been, “It’s rusty.” While that’s not entirely wrong, the truth is far ...

Mars' distinctive red color comes from the mineral ferrihydrite, which only forms in the presence of cool water, a new study claims. Ferrihydrite also forms at a lower temperature than other minerals ...

A new study may have revealed the true source behind how the Red Planet got its hue. It’s been long thought that Mars shines red due to the rusted iron minerals within the dust that covers the planet ...

We’ve always known Mars as the Red Planet — but it turns out, we may have had the reason why wrong. If so, it could revise much of what we know about the history of our smaller neighbor planet. In a ...

Frigid water helped paint Mars red and may have shaped a vast coastline, two new studies into the planet’s history reveal. Scientists have detected a possible ancient beach in Mars’ northern ...

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