Paradox Interactive has announced Surviving Mars Relaunched, a new, updated edition of the 2018 sci-fi city builder. The post ...

To transform Mars into a new bioengineered Eden for human colonists, scientists have resurrected sci-fi juggernaut Arthur ...

Previous research did not detect water in the planet’s iron oxides, leading researchers to believe that the red dust formed in dry conditions, therefore it was likely due to hematite. “Mars is ...

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient connection between the planet Mars and blood wasn't completely wrong.

Visible in the mosaic, which was stitched together from 96 images taken at a location the science team calls Falbreen, are a ...

The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds on Mars suggests that the Red Planet may once have been much wetter than previously thought. Researchers looked at fluvial sinuous ...

Mars, known as the red planet, might have gotten its hue from a different mineral than scientists once thought. ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team - MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA ...

At opposition, the Red Planet’s diameter will be 14.6 arcseconds, generally written as 14.6″. This isn’t much. For comparison, 1″ is the angle a dime subtends from a mile away.

Until now, most studies of early Mars had relied on magnetic field models that gave the red planet an Earth-like inner core that's solid and surrounded by molten iron.

Mars' Valles Marineris is a huge valley system that runs across the planet's red colored surface. (Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / USGS) This article was originally published at The Conversation.