Reading the "Mars Trilogy" by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the red planet ...

Whenever humans arrive on Mars, they're going to find it a difficult place to exist. Mars is cold, with an average surface ...

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The reason why Mars is called the Red Planet is because of its reddish appearance when seen from space and Earth. Mars is red ...

Here's one of the cool things you learn when you land a seismometer on another planet: Mars's days are getting shorter. Or to put it another way, the planet is spinning faster. That was discovered ...

Stargazers looking for more to do in April have a few more things coming, including a planet parade where four planets -- ...

Mars may look like a frozen desert today, but new evidence suggests its watery past didn’t simply fade away quietly—it may have been blasted into space by powerful dust storms. Scientists have ...

For several days this month, Saturn, Mars, and Mercury appear just degrees apart before sunrise—close enough to watch their ...