On May 15, 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will swing within roughly 2,800 miles (4,500 km) of Mars, using the planet’s ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a ...

A NASA spacecraft on its way to an asteroid has captured several stunning images of the Red Planet ...

Blue sunsets, whirling dust devils, giant volcanoes, tiny moons, and marsquakes—there’s a lot to discover on Mars!

Six planets in the solar system have at least one moon. Both Earth and Mars are toward the lower end of the lunar count, as our home planet only has one moon, and Mars has two. But not all moons share ...

Searching for clues on Phobos and Deimos. Damond Benningfield The Mars Moons eXploration spacecraft will fire its thrusters to maneuver into orbit around Mars (depicted in this digital art). JAXA Mars ...

Mars’ moons are easily visible at night from the surface of the Red Planet. Phobos – the nearer, larger, and brighter of the two – would be obviously non-round. A sharp-eyed observer would be able to ...

The rusty world is full of mysteries—and some of the solar system's most extreme geology. Learn more about Earth's smaller, colder neighbor.

A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would halve the time it takes to travel to the planet and back to ...

See dazzling planets, the Milky Way and a trio of celestial animals brightening the spring sky around May's new moon.