"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery. Astronomers ...

To be sure, Mars likely hosted some kind of water on the surface between 3.7 billion and 4.1 billion years ago, when Earth and the rest of the solar system were still young.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured the first-ever close-up images of strange, spiderweb-like rock formations on the surface of Mars. These formations offer new clues about the planet’s ...

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the planet's violently varying tilt may be a key factor.