The fourth planet from the Sun is famously a rusty red—but scientists now believe we’ve been wrong about how it got its distinct hue. The red coloration comes from iron minerals in Mars ...

As we enter March 2025, the solar system is bringing another chance to spot the Red Planet or Mars at its best ... sightings of Mars in 2025 Just a few days ago, February 28 marked a special ...

Perhaps humans will one day join robots on the red planet. NASA has stated its goal to send humans back to the moon as a stepping-stone to Mars. Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, is building a ...

We’ve always known Mars as the Red Planet — but it turns out, we may have had the reason why wrong. If so, it could revise much of what we know about the history of our smaller neighbor planet.

"Mars is still the Red Planet. It’s just that our understanding of why Mars is red has been transformed." Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as ...

Mars, also called the Red Planet ... 2021 and explored the surface for 358 Mars days before switching to inactive mode in 2022. It remains on the planet’s surface to this day.