If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. High winds have carved interesting shapes into the Martian south pole, including what ...

Astronomers have never seen Mars as up close as they will this week. The elliptical orbits of both Earth and Mars bring the planets relatively close every 18 months or so, but the Red Planet hasn't ...

NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars. Drawing on observations from NASA’s Mars ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of Santa Cruz, a hill about 1.5 miles away from the rover, on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, ...

Christiaan Huygens created the first recognizable drawings of Mars' surface features during the fall of 1659, an achievement made possible by his advancements in telescope manufacturing. His November ...

In the fall of 1659, Christiaan Huygens observed the opposition of Mars, drawing what he saw. The result was the first drawings of the recognizable surface features of the Red Planet – an achievement ...