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 ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover continues to beam home incredible sights from the Red Planet surface. This week, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) released an enhanced-color mosaic of 96 separate ...

Once again, Mars has presented us with an example of something it seems to have in abundance: extremely peculiar and baffling rocks. As the Perseverance rover trundled about Broom Point, on the lower ...

NASA's Perseverance rover snapped a photo of the sky in the hours just before dawn on March 1, 2025. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech In the hours just before dawn, NASA's Perseverance rover adjusted its ...

On November 13, 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet. NASA had several flybys before Mariner 9. Those flybys showed ...

We are familiar -- though not as familiar, of course, as we'd like to be -- with Mars. We know what the planet looks like from a distance. We know what it looks like from up close. But what about the ...