Mars holds a special place in the solar system. It represents marginal habitability. This means it transitioned from warm and ...

Scientists have broadly agreed for years that the thousands of small cone-shaped mounds peppering Mars’ northern lowlands are ...

A new study suggests Mars could help scientists understand how alien worlds evolve by showing how a once warmer, wetter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration of what a terraformed Martian landscape might look like. Mark Stevenson/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images ...

Scientists believe that future human settlements on Mars may rely on metals extracted from asteroids for construction.

Earth–Venus–Mars opportunity looks promising. 10–15 on-orbit refueling operations may be needed to make a crewed ship full.

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 less than a year.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton ...

From Mars, Earth transits the Sun four times in a 284-year cycle. The transits occur in either May or November at intervals of 100.5, 79, 25.5, and 79 years. During these events, Earth and the Moon ...