The Red Planet beckons us toward it, and the day draws closer when humans will walk on its dusty surface, and the moons of ...

Deimos and its sibling moon Phobos have different fates. Phobos is spiraling toward Mars and will either break up and form a ring around the Red Planet or crash into the surface. Deimos ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

On January 16 Mars shone at its brightest until 2027 as it was in opposition, which means it was positioned directly opposite ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun on Jan. 15. It will be visible all night long because it will rise with the ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

ESA is revolutionizing access to Mars with its LightShip initiative, focusing on small, cost-effective spacecraft. This new ...

For example, Mars is orbited by two tiny potato-shaped moons called Phobos and Deimos, which are likely two asteroids that were captured by the red planet’s gravity. But that type of formation ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

By imaging the dunes, scientists can figure out how much CO2 frost forms on the dunes during the Martian winter. When ...