Mars does not have Earth’s kind of magnetic shield, so it has often been treated as the solar system’s more exposed world. It ...

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

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

Researchers have uncovered an unexpected phenomenon, dubbed the Zwan-Wolf effect, squeezing plasma "like toothpaste" in Mars' upper atmosphere.

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

Blue sunsets, whirling dust devils, giant volcanoes, tiny moons, and marsquakes—there’s a lot to discover on Mars!

The rusty world is full of mysteries—and some of the solar system's most extreme geology. Learn more about Earth's smaller, colder neighbor.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While we earthlings prepare for a rare total solar eclipse that will pass over North America, Mars had one of its own earlier this ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey robotic spacecraft, which has been exploring Mars for over two decades, is set to complete an impressive milestone on June 30: 100,000 orbits around the Red Planet. Since its ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant slingshot on its journey to a mysterious metal world that could reveal what’s hidden inside planets like Earth.