Shaped like an oversized pocket watch, Beagle 2 hitched a ride to the Red Planet aboard Europe’s Mars Express orbiter but crash-landed on the planet rather than bouncing to a stop with airbags.

A meteorite from Mars has a history of interacting with water, probably as a result of volcanic activity melting ice on the Red Planet over 700 million years ago. The findings help reveal the ...

An asteroid impact on Mars 11 million years ago sent fragments of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these pieces eventually crashed into Earth, making its way to Purdue University and ...

Listen to Story A Martian year spans 687 Earth days or 668 sols Mars experiences four seasons similar to Earth The planet's axial tilt causes more extreme seasonal variations Mars has completed ...

“Are you sure you don’t want to just, you know, remove it?” the artist asks assertively. I considered this before making my appointment at the open-air studio. It’s a relic from a bleak ...

NASA is working on plans to send another helicopter to Mars. The craft would land itself after screaming into the planet’s atmosphere at speed, before covering several kilometres a day while ...

Mars, also called the Red Planet, is one of the most familiar planets in our solar system – apart from Earth, of course! Famous for its distinctive colour, Mars has become a hot topic of ...

Evidence suggests Mars could very well have been teeming with life billions of years ago. Now cold, dry, and stripped of what was once a potentially protective magnetic field, the red planet is a ...

12 November 2024 marks the start of a new year on Mars. At exactly 10:32 CET/09:32 UTC on Earth, the Red Planet begins a new orbit around our sun. This is the 38th Martian year. The convention for ...

The planet Mars is associated with energy, assertion, aggression, ambition, leadership, and sexual drive and is therefore rightly called the "planet of action". Mars transit through the zodiac sign ...

believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s. NASA's Viking 1 mission in 1976 saw two spacecraft land on the Red Planet's surface and conduct an experiment ...

Donald Trump is expected to attend the sixth suborbital test launch of SpaceX’s prototype Starship vehicle and Super Heavy Booster. The launch will take place in Boca Chica, Texas.