In a breathtaking new view from the Mars Express mission, ESA has released an image of Flaugergues Crater, captured in a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars ...

The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an interstellar comet was in a viewing geometry that kept Earth-based telescopes too ...

It would really suck to be all alone on Mars at night. The post This Photo of Mars at Night Is Straight Up Haunting appeared ...

It’s a virtual mission to Mars. Our first mission to Mars may still be a ways off, but people can take a virtual tour of the Red Planet thanks to a brand new video by the Mars Express Orbiter. People ...

With its reddish-hued surface and surroundings, Mars has more than earned its colorful nickname. But how would the Red Planet appear under clear-blue Earth skies? Thanks to a NASA rover wandering the ...

ESA's first mission to another world, the Mars Express orbiter, began circling the Red Planet on June 2, 2003. Ever since, the spacecraft has been mapping the ...

Using images from cameras on Mars orbiters, an international research team has discovered structures on Mars that are very similar to classic river deltas on Earth. These are traces of rivers that ...

Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA's Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic sandblaster, carving out intriguing grooves near Mars's equator. The ridges, ...

Dust storms on Mars were first observed by an astronomer using a telescope in 1796, according to NASA — and yet today, the powerful storms that can engulf the entire planet are still a mystery. To ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.