The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an ...
Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors.
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Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.
ESA's first mission to another world, the Mars Express orbiter, began circling the Red Planet on June 2, 2003. Ever since, ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The closest conjunction of Mars and the Pleiades star cluster since 1991 will take place early this week. Two objects are said to be in conjunction when they join up or ...