New images from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter have captured strange-looking waves on the Red Planet.

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In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out the evening of May 5 to see Mars close to the Beehive Cluster in the constellation Cancer the Crab. In fact, because Mars ...

Mars has always been fertile ground for the imagination. Science-fiction stories of centuries past depicted a warm and inviting planet filled with martian civilizations. Astronomer Percival Lowell ...

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For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too complex to be written off as a dead world of simple basalt.

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Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun and the one that has most intrigued humanity over the years. It was named after the god of war because its reddish soil gives the planet a scarlet hue in the night ...

"Explosive volcanism could repeatedly seed low latitudes with ice and ash, producing buried or insulated ice deposits that help explain the excess hydrogen signals measured near the equator." When you ...

Illustration of the planet Mars covered in water in the past, when its atmosphere was thicker and warmer. Now scientists may have found an unground reservoir. Is there water on Mars? Scientists using ...

In a Fox News interview, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said humans could be flown to Mars in ‘20 to 30 years.’ Photo: Susan Walsh/Associated Press SpaceX is shifting personnel and resources to its powerful new ...