Scientists might have been wrong about perhaps the most obvious thing about Mars: the red colour behind its nickname Earthlings have known about the existence of Mars, the fourth planet from the sun ...

We may have been wrong about how Mars got its characteristic red hue, a new study reveals. The Red Planet owes its ruddy complexion to rusted iron minerals, dispersed across billions of years by winds ...

For centuries, Mars’ deep ochre glow has been a riddle written across the night sky. Now, a convergence of spacecraft ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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This morning, NASA released the first “true-color” shot from the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on Sunday night. Curiosity sent the image of the ridge of the north wall of Gale Crater more than ...

A stereo camera operated by the UA will be carried aboard a Mars orbiter in 2016 as part of a joint program by NASA and the European Space Agency to explore the red planet, the UA announced Tuesday.

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA on Monday released the first 360-degree color panorama of the terrain on Mars that its Spirit rover should roll onto later this week. A team of two-dozen scientists and ...