Do you know why there are no earthquakes on Mars? It’s because they’re called “marsquakes” (sorry).

Just north of Mars’ equator lies a 45 km (28 mi) wide impact crater known as Jezero Crater. Scientists believe this location ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems ...

For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too ...

An artist's render of Mars. (Kevin M. Gill/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

Scientists in a recent breakthrough have discovered vast hidden magma systems beneath the surface of Mars, marking an “unexpected discovery” leading the researchers closer to finding ...

The dream of humans living on Mars has existed for decades, and in recent years it has moved closer to serious scientific and ...

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.

Making Mars Earthlike is not impossible in principle, but the scale of mass, heat, oxygen, and energy required makes it far beyond current capability.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express has captured part of Mars's Mamers Valles, a fascinating valley system speckled with ...

Human colonization may still be a way off, but NASA has been exploring Mars with a series of ever-larger mobile science labs.